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worked away through cultivation, on part of which is a house occupied by a colored 
family. Considerable digging in the unoccupied part of the mound yielded, in three 
instances, skeletal remains very badly decayed. With one burial was a rude vessel 
of earthenware, badly crushed. 
MOUND NEAR OLD PLUM ORCHARD LANDING, MONROE COUNTY. 
Following the road in from Old Plum Orchard Landing, the residence of Mr. 
J. T. Evans is reached, оп whose property is a small mound. This mound, which 
is much spread and is but a few inches above the surrounding level, yielded neither 
skeletal remains nor artifact. 
CEMETERIES NEAR KixG's LANDING, PRAIRIE COUNTY. 
At King’s Landing is a plantation belonging to Mr. J. A. King, of Desarc, 
Ark. Ina field back of the plantation house, which is near the landing, were a 
few scattered signs of aboriginal occupancy. Considerable digging in this field, at 
a place where the soil seemed darker than elsewhere, unearthed a number of skele- 
tons, nearly all badly disturbed by the plow, and all very much decayed. With 
one skeleton was a large, tubular, shell bead; with another, below the knee, were 
many small, discoidal beads, also of shell. 
About 1.5 mile N. by W. from King’s Landing is a small cottonfield, also 
property belonging to Mr. King, where, in two places, were visible on the surface 
many fragments of human bones and dwelling-site debris. 
Considerable digging in these sites yielded fourteen burials: partly flexed on the 
right, and on the left; at full length on the back; and disturbances, aboriginal and 
recent. In addition, two skeletons lay extended, face down; and another was on 
the back, partly flexed, with the thighs widely everted, the legs crossing at the 
feet. 
The burials at this place presented no fixed orientation; nor did they at any 
other point, so far as our investigation on White and Black rivers extended. 
MOUNDS NEAR CHANDLER LANDING, PRAIRIE COUNTY. 
About 1.25 mile almost due E. from Chandler Landing is a farm about fifty 
acres in extent, most of which is beyond reach of the river, though around it is 
woodland which is inundated in periods of high water. 
The farm and the surrounding forest land are the property of Mr. E. W. Grove, 
of St. Louis, and are under the management of Mr. R. D. Caldwell, of Desare, Ark., 
who kindly placed them at our disposal. 
Мосхо А. 
A few feet from a farm house by the roadside, which is occupied by an intelli- 
gent colored man, who cultivated the farm, was a mound 7 feet 6 inches high, and 
65 feet across its circular base. 
