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ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 55 
In major diameter the ellipse is about 850 feet, the minor diameter being 
about 575 feet. The mounds, to which letters will be ascribed for convenience 
in description, will be considered separately. 
Mound А, within the field, is quadrangular and still preserves a symmetrical 
appearance. Its height is 28.5 feet. The sides face the cardinal points, or 
practically do so. The diameters of base are 315 and 285 feet. The summit- 
plateau, which is under cultivation, is 200 feet by 150 feet. 
Mound B, 4 feet 8 inches in height, is 240 feet NNE. from Mound А, the 
distance being between the margins of the mounds, as are all such distances 
given of this group. "This mound, which is outside the field, is of very irregular 
outline, partly through cultivation in the past, furrows being plainly visible upon 
it, and partly through the presence of a road which passes over part of it. It is 
between 90 and 100 feet in diameter. 
Mound C, outside the field, 6 feet in height, is 84 feet E. from Mound B. 
Between wear and wash it has practically no regularity of outline. Its diameter 
of base is approximately 85 feet. 
Mound D, also 6 feet in height, practically shapeless, is about 70 feet Е. 
from Mound C. It lies without the field. Its diameters of base are 100 feet 
and 90 feet. 
Mound Е, 8 feet in height, lying outside the field, is 265 feet E. from Mound 
D. This mound has been quadrangular with a flat summit-plateau, but its shape 
is now very irregular. Its basal diameters are 90 and 100 feet; the diameters of 
what is left of the summit-plateau are 46 and 63 feet. 
Next in line comes what may possibly have been a mound, but evidently 
was used as a fortification in the Civil War, which its position commanding the 
water well qualified it to be. It has been omitted from the group of mounds by 
us, as it is impossible exactly to determine its nature. 
Mound F, lying outside the field, 12.5 feet high, is 105 feet SSE. from 
Mound £. It is square and still symmetrical. Its sides approximately face 
the eardinal points. Its basal diameter is 135 feet. 
Mound G, outside the field, about 4 feet in height, has been plowed out of all 
semblance of symmetry, though part of a flat summit-plateau still remains. It 
lies 90 feet S. from Mound F; its diameters of base are 75 feet and 100 feet. 
Mound H, forming part of the cultivated field, is 50 feet SW. from Mound G. 
It is a mere remnant with a height of 6 feet and a basal diameter of about 80 feet. 
Mound /, 180 feet WSW. from Mound H ‚ is on property belonging to Mr. 
M. A. McDonald living nearby. Its height is about 17 feet; its diameter of base 
(it is almost square) is about 190 feet, the diameter of the summit-plateau being 
somewhat more than 100 feet. This mound is fairly symmetrical, though the 
sides show the effects of wash in places. Many trees are on the summit-plateau. 
The mounds of this group, as well as various small rises, were carefully 
investigated by us, but in each instance, with one exception, Mound F, the 
material of which the mounds are composed (clay, or in one or two instances 
