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About 40 yards ENE. fi ls 1; ! 
0 ) yards ENE. from this mound is a pool marking the area whence the 
earth for the mound was taken. | 
| үз аа to careful examination of the sides of а large hole, which was 
already in the mound, we did | igei i 
d b io considerable digging, but without success. 
„| Careful search also was made over all this promising looking field, and many 
trial-holes were put down, but without avail | 
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MOUND NEAR CHEVALLIER LANDING, CATAHOULA PARISH, La. 
About half a mile in a southeasterly direction from the landing, on the Cheval- 
lier Place, which is the property of Mr. D. D. Chevallier, living nearby, in sight 
from the landing, is a mound, much of which has been washed away by rain, bu 
ing sections that expose raw-looking clay, but no bones or artifacts. š The height of 
the mound is 21 feet. 
Digging into what remained of the summit-plateau brought no return, and trial- 
holes in the adjacent woods and fields yielded no sign of a place of burial. 
MOUNDS ON THE FRAZIER PLACE, CATAHOULA PARISE, La. 
About four miles up Little river, after passing through Lake Catahoula, is the 
Frazier Place, the residence of Mr. L. D. Frazier. 
In fall view from the river's bank is a fine mound, about 12 feet high measured 
from the NW., where the ground is high, or more than 16 feet in height when the 
measurement is taken from the southwestern side, which is about the general level. 
The mound, originally a truncated cone, has a basal diameter of 90 feet. It 
has been somewhat washed away by rain, and has undergone considerable digging 
in places. 
Various parts of the mound were dug into by us, including an excavation 10 
feet by 9 feet in the summit-plateau, which yielded a full-length burial, two single 
skulls, and a bunch of bones without a skull. All these bones were badly decayed. 
No burials occured at a greater depth than 1.5 feet, where raw-looking clay was 
encountered. As we considered the mound to be of the domiciliary kind, with 
superficial burials, digging was discontinued at a depth of between 3 and 4 feet. 
In a cultivated field is a curious platform of earth, of remarkable symmetry, 
about 150 yards N. by W. from the large mound. The height of this mound in the 
field is approximately from 2 to 4 feet, depending on the slope of that part of the 
field whence measurement is taken. It is almost square, with a diameter of 95 
feet, the diameter of the summit-plateau being about 75 feet. 
There is no exact orientation to this curious mound, which, perhaps, was the 
first stage in the building of a greater one, the sides being approximately N. by E. 
and 8. by W., and E. by 8. and W. by N. 
Considerable digging into this mound in the hope of discovering a cemetery, 
proved fruitless. 
