102 ANTIQUITIES OF THE OUACHITA VALLEY. 
Mounds on the Frazier Place, Catahoula Parish, La. 
Mounds at Donohue Ferry, Catahoula Parish, La. 
Mounds at Nugent Landing, Grant Parish, La. 
Mounds on Big Creek, Grant Parish, La. 
Mound near Whatley Landing, Grant Parish, La. 
Mounps At BENNETT LANDING, CATAHOULA PARISH, LA. 
At Bennett Landing, in full view from Little river, in a cultivated field, are 
two mounds of moderate size, formerly quadrangular, but now much eroded by 
wash of rain, and, as to their lower parts probably by the river in time of 
overflow. 
Permission to investigate these mounds was accorded, and later withdrawn. 
The mounds, judging from their-outlines and summit-plateaus, belong to the domi- 
ciliary class. There is no history of the finding of bones or of artifacts in or near 
them. 
Мосхрѕ ох BUSHLEY CREEK, CATAHOULA PARISH, LA. 
At the junction of Bushley Creek with Old river, is a landing. About three- 
quarters of a mile NNW. from this landing is a large field, long fallow, the property | 
of Messrs. H. & C. Newman, of New Orleans, to whom we are indebted also for 
permission to investigate their property on the Ouachita river. 
In this field are a number of mounds and rises in the ground, and the surface 
contains much evidence of former occupancy by aborigines. 
The principal mound (A), much trampled by cattle, a refuge for which it is in 
periods of overflow, has a present height of 6 feet; the diameter of its circular base, 
which evidently has been much extended, is 80 feet. 
Ten trial-holes sunk into this mound showed it to be mostly of hard clay with 
an admixture of sand in places. 
Human remains, all badly decayed, were found in four of the holes, consisting 
of fragments in two places; a skull; and a bunched burial. 
In another trial-hole, in which no bones were apparent, was a small, un- 
decorated pot having a square, flat base. With it were parts of another vessel. 
As neither bones nor earthenware were met with at a depth greater than one 
foot, it was evident that burials in this mound had been made superficially. 
About 115 yards N. by E. from Mound A is another mound (B), which in the 
past has had a house upon it, and is greatly dug and washed away. It is covered 
with fragments of chert, among which were parts of several human bones. On the 
W. side, adjacent to the mound, has been a garden, around which, except along the 
part which abuts upon the mound, is a small embankment, or levee, of the same 
period as the house, to protect the garden in periods of high water. 
This mound, about 5 feet high from the 5., N., and W., is of much greater 
height on the eastern side, where, seemingly, the surface of the field has been 
washed away by the creek. 
