ANTIQUITIES OF THE OUACHITA VALLEY. 111 
BAYOU BARTHOLOMEW.: 
Bayou Bartholomew, comparatively deep in the winter season, and narrow so 
that the traveler on it has the cosy sensation of journeying on a canal, passes 
throughout between lines of contiguous farms and plantations, all on ground so 
high that it is almost free from danger of overflow. The bayou escaped the great 
flood of 1882, though the lower parts of the country bordering it were inundated 
for a short time in the still greater freshet of 1874, which, however, was due to 
a special cause. 
As we have said, we searched the bayou from its union with the Ouachita to 
Portland, Arkansas, its navigable length, a distance of 134 miles, by water. 
Later, we again carefully investigated the bayou to a point somewhat above 
the Mound Place, or about half the distance previously covered. 
Bayou Bartholomew, as stated in our introductory remarks, was not visited by 
our agent previous to our coming, but so courteous were the planters and farmers 
along its banks and so eager to aid us, that our disadvantage through want of ad- 
vance information was reduced to a minimum. 
MOUNDS AND SITES. 
Mound near Sycamore Landing, Morehouse Parish, La. 
Cemetery near Sycamore Landing, Morehouse Parish, La. 
Cemetery on the Keno Plantation, Morehouse Parish, La. 
Cemetery on the Ward Place, Morehouse Parish, La. 
Cemetery near Seven Pines Landing, Morehouse Parish, La. 
Cemetery near Bray Landing, Morehouse Parish, La. 
Mound and cemetery on the Mound Place, Morehouse Parish, La. 
Cemetery at Linn Grove Landing, Morehouse Parish, La. 
Mound near Linn Grove Landing, Morehouse Parish, La. 
Mounds near Wilmot, Ashley County, Ark. 
Mound at Noble Landing, Ashley County, Ark. 
Mounds on the Carlock Place, Ashley County, Ark. 
Mound on the Sherrer Place, Ashley County, Ark. 
Mound near Portland, Ashley County, Ark. 
MOUND NEAR SYCAMORE LANDING, MOREHOUSE PARISH, La. 
About 150 yards E. by N. from Sycamore Landing is a mound with circular 
base, 11 feet in height and 130 feet in diameter. This mound, which has every 
appearance of having been plowed over in recent years, seems to belong to the 
domiciliary class. Its owner was disinclined to permit investigation. 
1 We are unable to say why Bartholomew is called a bayou, and residents along its banks are 
equally in ignorance as to the explanation. The Saline, rising in Arkansas and joining the Ouachita, 
as does Bayou Bartholomew, and of no greater size than Bartholomew, is called a river. 
