504 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES. 
In spite of the plowing in progress during our visit, we arranged to put 
down some exploratory holes here and there in low remainders of mounds and 
in a ridge forming part of the site, but found neither bone nor artifact. Doubt- 
less the furor for pot-hunting at this place in the past, and constant cultivation 
since, have completely cleared the site of all the relies it formerly contained. 
The settlement of New Madrid is particularly mentioned by Major Forman,! 
who went down the Ohio and Mississippi in 1789-90. At that time there was 
danger from the Indians along the Ohio. From New Madrid, Mo., to Bayou 
Pierre, sixty miles above Natchez, Miss., was no settlement along the Mississippi. 
Shortly before reaching New Madrid, Major Forman had guests at dinner 
on his boat and had provided a large piece of fresh beef, “enough and to spare." 
Three Indians who had come aboard were invited to share the repast, which 
they no doubt appreciated. At the close of the meal one of the guests, perhaps 
enlivened by some stimulant, though Major Forman does not say so, took his 
fork and pitched it in a way to take hold and stand upright in the meat that 
was left. The Indians, always prone to ceremony and no doubt considering 
this a ceremonial act incumbent on well-bred persons after a repast, and not 
wishing to be wanting in courtesy to their host, each hurled his fork into the 
meat, leaving it planted therein. 
THE CAMPBELL MOUND, FULTON County, Ky. 
About six miles westward from Hickman, Ky., on the property of Mr. T. M. 
French of that place, is the Campbell mound. This mound, formerly quadri- 
lateral with a summit-plateau, is 18 feet in height and 225 feet by 160 feet in 
diameters of base. The remains of a causeway, now largely plowed away, is 
evident on one side of the mound. As this mound is a refuge in time of flood, 
the tenant on the property was not willing to have trial-holes put down in the 
summit-plateau, where the soil seemed dark and there might have been super- 
ficial burials. 
Near the mound were two slight rises of very restricted area in the cultivated 
field in which the mound stands. We were permitted to put down eight trial- 
holes in these, five of which, in one of them, yielded nothing. 
The remaining three holes, dug into the other rise, came upon two burials, 
as follows: 
Burial No. 1, 2 feet 4 inches from the surface, was a deposit of calcined frag- 
ments of human bones, roughly circular, about 1 foot 3 inches in diameter and 
5 inches in thickness. With these were fragments of sheet-copper showing the 
effect of fire, presumably parts of an ornament. 
This deposit of cremated bones had been placed on a fragment of a very 
large vessel of earthenware. In places on this large sherd other fragments of 
pottery had been deposited, making, here and there, a double thickness. 
! Narrative of a Journey down the Ohio and Mississippi in 1789-90. Ву Maj. Samuel S. Forman. 
Cincinnati, 1888. 
