394 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
Burial No. 2. The top covering of this grave had been plowed away and the 
sides were down in places. Scattered bones were present. 
Burial No. 3. The top and some of the slabs forming the sides of this grave 
had been plowed away, but sufficient remained to show that the grave, inside 
measurement, had been 22 inches by 15 inches, by 13 inches deep. On the floor 
in the center of the grave, lay the skull of an adult, immediately surrounded by 
the smaller bones and having the long-bones carefully piled on two sides of it 
and over it. The pelvis was at one end of the grave. All the space in this 
grave had been utilized, and it was jocularly remarked that there was no room 
for artifacts. 
Two hundred yards, approximately, from the site just described, in an ESE. 
direction, in an adjacent field of wheat, was another small cemetery, on the 
surface of which lay a number of slabs where four stone graves were discovered 
by sounding. 
Burial No. 1, 6 inches down, was 35 inches by 2 feet, by 17 inches deep, inside 
measurement. One end of the grave consisted of a single slab; the other end was 
made up of two slabs projecting outward and forming an angle in which the head 
of the skeleton rested. The sides of the grave consisted of one slab each, a small 
space at one side being filled with fragments. The sides stood erect, but their 
upper margins were very uneven, so that the top, consisting of four slabs, had 
fallen in. The burial lay closely flexed on the right, and, for good measure, 
perhaps, had on the left side, against the slab, the skull of an adult with some 
of the long-bones of its skeleton, and a femur and a tibia of a child. On the 
opposite side of the grave, against the slab also, lay a femur of still another adult, 
making five full-sized femora in the grave. 
Burial No. 2. This grave had been disturbed superficially. The burial 
was made up of detached bones, but no skull. 
Burial No. 3, a grave partly plowed away, having a few bones of the skeleton 
of a child remaining. 
Burial No. 4. The top slabs of this grave, which was 2 feet 9 inches by 1 foot 
11 inches, by 11 inches deep, and irregular in outline, had been partly plowed 
away, without disturbance, however, to the contents, which consisted of two 
bunched burials, each with a skull. 
No artifacts were with any burials in the stone graves discovered here by 
us, hence the record of the place was maintained. 
MOUNDS AND SITES ON HiwassEE ISLAND, Marias COUNTY. 
Hiwassee Island,! the property of Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Benham, who reside 
upon it, is about two miles long and one mile wide. 
1 Cyrus Thomas, “Catalogue of Prehistoric Works," р. 209. Hiwassee Island is described under 
the name of Jolly’s Island, which it probably bore at one time, and twenty-four mounds are referred 
to as upon it, which might well have been the case, long ago, when the island was visited by Mr. J. W. 
Emmert, on whose information the statement is based. 
