SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 597 
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MOUND NEAR SULPHUR RIVER, MILLER COUNTY, ARK. 
In swamp, dry at the time of our visit, is a mound which may be reached by 
going about one mile up Sulphur river, a tributary of Red river, when the mound 
will be found 100 yards north of Sulphur river and an equal distance west of a 
bayou tributary to it. This mound, 6 feet in height, originally quadrilateral with 
a summit-plateau, has lost much of its symmetry through trampling of cattle and 
wash of water. Its basal diameter ENE. and WSW. is 126 feet, and 116 feet 
NNW. and SSE. The corresponding diameters of the summit-plateau are 82 feet 
and 67 feet. 
Investigation showed the mound to be a mixture of sand and clay. No evi- 
dence of use for burial purposes was observable. 
MOUNDS ON THE HALEY PLACE, MILLER County, ARK. 
The Haley Place, well known some distance along the river for its aboriginal 
mounds, is the joint property of Mr. T. G. Batte, living nearby, and of the Mer- 
chants and Planters Bank of Texarkana, Ark. 
The Haley Place in part borders Red river, but its upper portion is shut off 
from the river by another property. Іп this upper part of the Haley place is a 
short segment of a former course of the river, now closed at each end, known as 
Haley Lake. 
Near this “lake” is what remains of a mound after continued wear and wash. 
Upon it is a frame building. Farther back, but in full view from the “lake,” to 
which one of its shorter sides is about parallel, is a mound which has been quad- 
rangular, no doubt, but whose sides and corners have been considerably worn by 
trampling of cattle and by wash of water. This mound, slightly more than 17 feet 
in height, has a basal diameter E. by S. and W. by N. of 160 feet, and of 120 feet 
S. by W. and N. by E. The summit-plateau is 105 feet and 90 feet in the same 
directions respectively. It is not level. In the western part a slope upward 
begins, and continues for 18 feet until a height of 3.5 feet above the eastern end of 
the plateau is reached. Level ground then continues to the western end of the 
plateau. These 3.5 feet are included in the total height of the mound as given by 
us. In sight from the mound is a considerable depression whence material for its 
building was taken. 
Trial-holes in this mound soon came to raw-looking sand, while other holes 
reached the sand after passing through several feet of dark soil. 
Presumably this mound was the one used as a place of abode by the chief of 
the aborigines who occupied this site. 
About 60 yards in a northwesterly direction from the domiciliary mound is 
another whose sides have been subject to considerable wash from rain, and proba- 
bly, as to their lower parts, from the river in flood time. Our measurement, taken 
from the surrounding level, determined the height of this mound to be slightly in 
