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the Academy we have had occasion to acknowledge before, and in part on that of 
a person whose name we did not learn, was a mound through which a trench about 
4 feet wide had been dug north and south. The eastern half of this mound, which 
was 3.5 feet in height and 42 feet in diameter, was dug away by us. 
In five places human bones were encountered, three skulls separately, a skull 
with fragments of other bones, and traces of bones. 
The usual mortuary deposit of earthenware, in this instance composed of 
vessels and parts of vessels, in fragments, a few whole vessels and several entire 
with the exception of a part, lay away from the burials. With them were the 
remains of what had been a shell drinking-cup, and in another part of the deposit 
some small sheets of mica. The deposit was first encountered in the northeastern 
part of the mound, about 3.5 feet inward from the margin, and, considerably 
spread and scattered, continued in about 14 feet. 
More attempt at decoration on the earthenware (gritty ware in one instance) 
was present in this mound than we usually found along the Choctawhatchee. 
This decoration, punctate and incised as a rule, includes the complicated stamp 
and the small check-stamp only to the extent of several small sherds. In form 
also a few of the vessels are somewhat out of the ordinary. All determinable are 
seen to have the mortuary hole knocked through the base. 
The following ware is worthy of especial description. 
A pot (Fig. 6) having an interesting line and punctate decoration, shown in 
diagram in Fig. 7. Red pigment, which at one time had considerable part in 
the decoration of the vessel, is present on much of the surface. 
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An undecorated, lenticular vessel of good, hard yellow ware is 3.5 inches 
high and 8 inches in length. 
One vessel, of which only part was present in the mound, and this part in 
many fragments, has had a flattened spherical body and an upright, circular 
neck, the rim of which projects somewhat at four equidistant points (Fig. 8). 
The decoration is a line and punctate design. 
Part of another vessel, also of excellent yellow ware, found in many fragments, 
56 JOURN. A. №. 8. PHILA., VOL. XVI. 
