18 ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 
10 feet in height and about 70 feet in diameter; the other about half that size. 
Though these mounds were placed at our disposal for investigation, the high 
water prevailing at the time we reached their vicinity was such that digging 
into them was deemed inadvisable. 
MOUND on ALABAMA Bayou, IBERVILLE PARISH. 
In open woods, probably a comparatively recent growth, as the place 
seemed to have been under cultivation, opposite the mouth of Johnson’s bayou, 
about 200 feet in from the water, is a mound, the name of whose owner we did 
not learn. This mound, with a base irregularly circular, 60 feet in diameter, 1s 
about 4.5 feet in height. It has been used as a refuge for hogs, and the sides are 
considerably worn. The mound proved to be of tough clay with no sign of 
interments. 
Seventy paces in a southerly direction from this mound is another about 
2 feet in height and 50 feet in diameter. In the center of the mound is a water- 
oak, a tree of no great age, 18 feet in circumference 5 feet from the ground. The 
roots of this tree made investigation practically impossible. 
MOUNDS NEAR Cross Bayou LANDING, POINTE CoupkEe PARISH. 
About two miles below Melville, but on the opposite, or eastern, side of the 
river, a mound was visited by our agent who reported it to be about 5 feet in 
height and 50 feet in diameter of base. As the owner of the mound seemed to 
consider that the privilege of digging into it should be richly paid for, the ques- 
tion of its investigation was dropped. 
MOUNDS NEAR MELVILLE, St. LANDRY PARISH. 
About two miles in a southerly direction from Melville, if a straight line 
were followed, but somewhat more by the way it is necessary to take, is the 
property of Mr. E. B. Dubuisson, of Opelousas, La., on the southern bank of 
Burton lake, which is probably a small bayou across the mouth of which a levee 
has been built. 
In a cultivated field on this property, but a short distance apart, are a 
ridge and a mound. 
The ridge, which evidently has been plowed down to a great extent, is 160 
feet in length. At the western and wider end it is 85 feet across. From this 
end, where its height is about 4 feet, it slopes gradually downward. No trace 
of interments was found in this ridge. 
The mound, which has been quadrangular, is considerably worn and prob- 
ably parts of the sides have been under cultivation. Its height is about 8.5 
feet. Its basal diameters are 110 feet and 125 feet. There is dark soil on the 
summit-plateau, which is 45 feet by 50 feet, but hard, red clay is soon reached in 
digging. We found no sign of burial in this mound, but a thorough examination 
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