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paratively thin ware. Тһе modeling is symmetrical; Ше trailed decoration has 
been executed by a firm and practised hand. It is interesting to note that practi- 
cally the same decoration may be seen on a vessel from near Menard Mound, 
Arkansas river, Ark., figured! by us. 
Vessel No. 8. A bottle 5.5 inches in height, with low, wide mouth, bearing a 
trailed design largely composed of circles between lines, some curved, some straight. 
The design is rather faintly executed and consequently wanting in effect. 
` Vessel No. 24. А bowl having a modeled head of an animal and a conven- 
tional tail, both rising vertically from opposite sides. Within the head, the jaws of 
which are extended, are objects which rattle when shaken. Around the body are 
two trailed, encircling lines, rudely done, enclosing diagonal lines. On the base а 
six-pointed star is incised. Diameter 6.5 inches. 
SITE NEAR GLASS, WARREN County, Miss. 
About one mile NNE. from Glass, a station on the Yazoo and Mississippi Val- 
ley railroad, on the plantation of Mrs. J. P. Cline, of New York City, which is 
under the management of Mr. William G. Paxton, of Vicksburg, Miss., are four 
mounds forming a very irregular circle with a diameter of about 420 feet. Some 
distance north of these mounds is another, much spread and worn, on which is 
a house. 
None of these mounds was erected as a place of refuge in time of flood, for 
although they are on ground subject to occasional overflow, they are not ten min- 
utes’ journey from the hills which approach the river at this place. 
The largest mound of the group composing the so-called circle is 30 feet in 
height and is still rather symmetrical, though wash of rain has already scarred the 
upper part. The basal diameter N. by E. and 5. by W. is 180 feet; E. by S. and 
W. by N. it is 167 feet. The diameters of the summit-plateau in the same direc- 
tions respectively, are 60 and 64 feet. 
Fourteen trial-holes in this plateau failed to come upon artifact or bone. 
Two other mounds of the four composing the circle have been greatly mutila- 
ted. One, about 6 feet in height originally, has been partly cut away in making a 
road, while the other, curtailed on one side by the same road, has been in part 
washed away on the opposite side by a small bayou, and has been leveled to a con- 
siderable extent to serve as a foundation for a building which formerly stood upon 
it. Both these mounds were unsuccessfully dug into by us. 
The fourth mound of the circular group has a height of 15 feet. NNE. and 
SSW. its diameter of base is 149 feet; ESE. and WNW. it is 128 feet. The 
diameters of the summit-plateau, respectively, in the same directions are 39 feet 
and 59 feet. This mound, however, has been under cultivation practically over its 
entire surface; and a narrow spur, protected from the plow by a tree, projects from 
a corner of the summit-plateau a distance of 13 feet, thus showing that the plateau 
! «Certain Mounds of Arkansas and of Mississippi,” Fig. 19. Јошт. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 
Vol. XIII. 
