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ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 63 
Mound D, 98 paces SE. by 8. from Mound С, spread by cultivation, has a 
height of about 2.5 feet and a basal diameter of 85 feet. Seven trial-holes were 
unsuccessfully put down through light-colored clay of very unpromising ap- 
pearance. 
Digging in a part of the site produced a fragment of pottery showing red 
pigment on one side. 
MOUND ON THE CROWROOT PLACE, MADISON PARISH. 
This plantation, as to the name of which there seems to be some doubt, 
has, in view from the river, a mound about square, 6.5 feet in height and 140 
feet in basal diameter. Its outline has suffered through cultivation on top and 
along the sides. Digging into this mound yielded no return in artifacts, nor any 
evidence of its having served as a place of burial. 
MOUNDS ON THE RICHARDSON PLACE, East CARROLL PARISH. 
About three-quarters of a mile SW. from the regular landing on the Richard- 
son Place, which belongs to Mrs. John P. Richardson, of New Orleans, La., in 
sight from each other, are two mounds. One of these, 5.5 feet in height, of 
irregular basal outline, is about 95 feet in diameter. As this mound had been 
long in use by the Richardson family as a place of burial, and numerous tomb- 
stones are upon it, no investigation of it was attempted. 
The second mound has served as a site for a house, the brick chimney of 
which was standing at the time of our visit. The mound has been greatly altered 
in outline in the course of years. 
Digging showed the distance from the summit-plateau to a dark stratum of 
soil, the original surface of the ground, to be 3.5 feet, though a measurement of 
height from the outside did not indicate so much. 
Eight trial-holes resulted in the discovery of one burial, which was very 
fragmentary and in the last stage of decay, the skull being represented by remains 
of the teeth only. In another hole, near together, were fragments of two bowls 
of inferior ware, each having incised line-decoration of inferior quality. No 
bones were found with these vessels, and presumably the burial that almost 
certainly once was with them, had decayed away. No doubt other burials in 
this mound had likewise completely disappeared, which would account for the 
ill-suecess of our trial-holes. 
MOUND NEAR LOWER Jackson LANDING, West CARROLL PARISH. 
About one-quarter mile in a northerly direction from the lower landing on 
the Jackson Place is a mound with a circular base, 9 feet in height, the basal 
diameter being 115 feet. 
This mound has been the cemetery of the Jackson family for more than 
sixty years, and, in addition, colored persons have been buried along the sides, 
so that digging on our part was out of the question, though we were kindly 
