10 ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 
Captain Raybon’s search included many lakes and bayous connected with the 
river. No investigation was made by him of that part of Atchafalaya river 
below Morgan City, which flows mainly through marsh. 
Our own investigation included all the river traversed by Captain Raybon, 
with the exception of several collateral sites, whose omission will be explained 
later in our account. i 
The Atchafalaya region is low-lying in the main, and inhabitants in parts 
of it, from whom inquiries can be made, are few. Consequently numerous sites, 
no doubt, remain unlocated, though such as were found most likely were rep- 
resentative. 
In this region burials in mounds were numerous, but the custom to inter 
artifacts with the dead apparently was not practised. 
SITES INVESTIGATED. 
On the Miller Place, Assumption Parish." 
On Bonnet Bayou, Assumption Parish. 
On Little Pigeon Bayou, Iberia Parish. 
On Sorrel Bayou, Iberville Parish. 
Near the Schwing Place, Iberville Parish. 
Opposite Pigeon Bayou, Iberville Parish. 
On Lake La Rose, St. Martin Parish. 
On Bayou La Rose, St. Martin Parish. 
On the Wilbert property, Iberville Parish. 
On Bayou Grosse Téte, Iberville Parish. 
On Alabama Bayou, Iberville Parish. 
Near Melville, St. Landry Parish. 
MOUNDS on LAKE VERRET, ASSUMPTION PARISH. 
At the lower end of Lake Verret are two mounds on property of Mr. Octave 
Delaune, reported by our agent who visited them, to be each about 6 feet in 
height and 60 and 40 feet in diameter, respectively. 
Although permission had been obtained to investigate these mounds, an 
approaching flood made it inadvisable to do so. 
MOUND ON THE MILLER PLACE, ASSUMPTION PARISH. 
This mound, or ridge, more correctly speaking, borders Grand river, on 
property of Mr. C. P. Miller, who resides on it. The ridge, which has great 
irregularity of surface, is about 40 paces in width. Its length is hard to determine, 
as it extends some distance at one end almost at the level of the surrounding 
ground. Roughly speaking, it may be said to be 250 yards long. Its maximum 
height, measured from the outside, is 4 feet 8 inches, but a trial-hole put down at 
this place did not reach undisturbed clay until 7.5 feet had been penetrated. 
1 Such divisions of the commonwealth as are termed counties in other states of the union 
are known as parishes in the state of Louisiana, 
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