358 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
in the JOURNAL), determined by us after strenuous search on the surface and 
by digging, and by repeated interviews with persons in Chattanooga informed 
on the subject, during a visit of six weeks to that city and its vicinity, including 
Williams Island and Moccasin Bend, and later by correspondence with experts 
in various parts of the country, are as follows: 
1. None of these points was found by us on the surface or in graves. Had 
the points been made near the river-bank and then some washed to places along 
the stream, one certainly would expect others to have been carried inland and left 
on the surface or deposited with burials. 
= 2. No one living on Williams Island or along Moccasin Bend seems to know 
anything of the presence of these minute points there, either now or in the past; 
and citizens of Chattanooga, well informed as to the matter, have sought them 
in vain and know of no proof of their actual discovery, and from various details 
connected with these arrowpoints are inclined to consider them fraudulent. 
3. Years ago these arrowheads were put on the market in great numbers! 
by a citizen of Chattanooga, a dealer in curiosities and in relics purporting to 
come from the battlefields around Chattanooga, who later obtained a distributing 
agent for the arrowheads in Cincinnati, to widen the market for them. 
4. Colonel Young, of whose good faith in this matter there is no question, 
when he obtained the minute arrowpoints in place did so under the guidance of 
this original vendor. Williams Island is but a short distance from Chattanooga. 
5. Though the original vendor, it is said, used to state that some of the 
minute arrowheads had been found on Williams Island by boys, there is no 
proof of any of these small arrowpoints having come into the possession of any- 
one except through the original vendor or through those in his company when 
the alleged discovery was made. 
6. In the foregoing statement no consideration has been accorded to the 
minute arrowpoints on sale until recently or to the present time by a well-known 
fakir in Virginia and by parties in the western Tennessee and Kentucky region. 
MOUNDS ON THE CARTER FARM, HAMILTON COUNTY. 
The Carter Farm, opposite Williams Island, belonging to the Chattanooga 
Estates Company, C. E. James, Esq., President, has three mounds ón it all 
in sight from one another and from the river bank. 
MOUND A. 
Mound A, the most westerly of the three, is in a cultivated field and evidently 
has been greatly spread by the plow. Its present height is slightly less than 
4 feet; its diameter, 60 feet. Eight trial-holes, which included most of the 
mound other than the marginal parts, eame upon, in one instance, a double 
burial in the center of the base of the mound, which seemed to have been placed 
! We know of the present whereabouts of more than six hundred. 
