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OUND NEAR Lock NUMBER Six, ASHLEY County, ARK. 
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er Six, on the right-hand bank going up stream, and keeping a northerly 
course t rough the woods for about one mile in a straight line, one reaches, if aided 
by a skillful guide, a mound on a low ridge on which are pine trees. 
The mound, of sand, attains a height of 10 feet 3 inches above the general level 
and is 93 feet across its circular base. The summit-plateau, also circular, has a 
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diameter of 33 feet. This mound, which has every appearance of belonging to the 
domiciliary class, was considerably dug into by us, but not demolished. Three 
burials, much decayed, were found near the surface. 
Trial-holes in the level ground near by failed to disclose burials. 
About 200 yards in an easterly direction from the mound is a circular rise in 
the ground, in which eight trial-holes yielded nothing. 
MOUNDS NEAR GREEN LAKE, BRADLEY County, ARK. 
Green Lake, a former course of the Ouachita river, makes in from that river 
from the right-hand side going up, about six miles by water below Caryville. 
About one mile from the landing, on the eastern side of the lake, is the property 
of Dr. B. H. Green, of Warren, Ark., which, though long under cultivation in the 
past, was fallow at the time of our visit. 
On this property is a group of eight mounds, all of sand, of which the southern- 
most mound is the only one of considerable size and which alone retains its original 
form. 
This mound, which has never been under cultivation, is 19 feet in height, 
measured from the southern side. It is practically square, with a basal diameter 
of about 160 feet. The summit-plateau, which is level, is also square, with a 
diameter of 80 feet. It was fairly riddled with trial-holes by us in an unsuccessful 
endeavor to discover a cemetery. | 
The remaining mounds also were dug into without success, except the dis- 
covery in one of two badly decayed human skulls lying together near the surface. 
It is likely that these mounds, and the level ground, which also we investigated 
in places, have in the past yielded what aboriginal relics they possessed, during 
the long-continued cultivation to which they have been subjected, though there 
seems to be no history of the discovery of artifacts on this property in compara- 
tively recent time. 
On the surface there were few signs of occupancy by aborigines. Here and 
there was a fragment of chert, and a small “ celt,” roughened at one end for hafting, 
was picked up by us. 
CEMETERY AT CARYVILLE LANDING, UNION COUNTY, ARK. 
The aboriginal cemetery at Caryville Landing is well known, word of it having 
reached us far down the river. Unfortunately its reputation is based mainly on 
the past, the cemetery having been situated on ground which has been gradually 
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