408 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
considerable debris, including bits of pottery, some having crude, incised decora- 
tion of parallel and crossed lines. 
There were gathered from the surface, besides some graceful, triangular 
arrowheads and many carelessly-made ones, all of flint: a hatchet and part of 
another one; small dises of pottery and of stone; a tubular bead and a small 
boss of brass; a flint knife. A very careful search conducted by nine persons 
failed to find any trace of human bones on the surface, and a limited amount of 
digging and sounding with the rod were unsuccessful in discovering burials. 
MOUND NEAR RED CLOUD FERRY, RHEA COUNTY. 
Near Red Cloud Ferry, on property belonging to Mr. William E. Wheelock, 
of Chattanooga, is a mound about 5 feet high and 40 feet in diameter (estimated). 
Permission not granted. 
MOUNDS ох THE Hope PLACE, RHEA COUNTY. 
On the property of Mr. H. R. Hope are three mounds visible from the river, 
ranging between 7 and 9 feet in height, each about 50 feet in diameter (estimated). 
Though Mr. Hope kindly placed these mounds at our disposal, the low water 
prevailing in the river prevented our approach within a distance convenient for 
conducting the investigation. 
MOUNDS ох THE CaGLE PLACE, RHEA COUNTY. 
On the property of Mr. W. N. Cagle are three mounds, all between 5 and 6 
feet in height and with basal diameters between 40 and 50 feet (estimated). 
Permission not granted. 
MOUNDS NEAR JACKSON FERRY, MEIGS AND ROANE COUNTIES. 
On the property of Dr. and Mrs. T. L. Smith, of Harriman, Tenn., are 
fourteen mounds, to investigate which we were unable to obtain permission. 
In ascending the river one comes first to a mound about 10 feet in height in sight 
from the bank. Farther along is one about 3 feet in height and opposite the 
mouth of White creek is another 5 feet high, approximately. These mounds 
probably are in Meigs County. 
A short distance in from Jackson Ferry, on the Smith property, some of which 
are in sight from it, are five other mounds in line and but short distances apart, 
the largest having a height of about 5 feet. 
Farther back on a hill, on the extremity of a ridge, in woods, is a very inter- 
esting group of six mounds, all near together, all very symmetrical and nearly 
of the same size, the largest being 16 feet in height and 80 feet in diameter. 
MOUNDS ON THE FITZGERALD PLACE, ROoANE COUNTY. 
On the Fitzgerald property, belonging to Mrs. Elizabeth Fitzgerald, of Rock- 
wood, Tenn., are seven mounds between 6 feet and 11 feet in height. Permission 
to dig not granted. 
