628 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 
Mounps ох THE DANIELS PLACE, ПемрвтЕлр COUNTY, Акк. 
Іп woods, оп the Daniels Place, for which Мг. Steve Сатгісап, who has shown 
many courtesies to the Academy, is agent, but a short distance in from the river, 
is а mound, quadrangular with rounded corners, about 12 feet in height; it, how- 
ever, appears of much greater height when viewed from a deep depression nearby, 
whence came the material for its making. 
The mound NNE. and SSW. has a basal diameter of about 210 feet, of which 
155 feet is covered by the summit-plateau. In width the mound has a diameter of 
105 feet, the summit-plateau in the same direction being 60 feet. 
Toward the southern end of this mound, built upon the summit-plateau, is a 
mound, circular in outline, with a basal diameter of 35 feet. The height of this 
little mound, which is almost entirely of sand, while the great mound seemed to 
have much more clay than sand in its composition, is 3 feet. This small mound, 
which we attacked with great expectations, yielded nothing whatever. Trial-holes 
in the large mound were equally unsuccessful. 
A few yards distant from the northern end of the great mound is an irregularly- 
cireular one slightly more than 4 feet in height, with a diameter of about 70 feet. 
This mound has a circular summit-plateau 32 feet in diameter. 
Five or six yards from the southern end of the great mound is another mound, 
somewhat smaller than the one at the northern end. Thorough digging into both 
these mounds was without success. 
In the woods, in the neighborhood of the northern end of the great mound, 
were three small ones, the largest of which had a diameter of 35 feet and a height 
of 2.5 feet. These mounds were carefully dug but gave no evidence of having been 
used for burial purposes. 
MOUNDS on THE JONES PLACE, HEMPSTEAD County, ARK. 
On the Jones Place, which belongs to Dr. H. L. B’Shers, of Fulton, Ark., are 
three small mounds, near one another (two being almost contiguous), and all in 
sight from the landing. Оп one is a dwelling and an outhouse; the other two have 
been largely dug into. 
The mound occupied by the buildings was not investigated by us, and the 
less-dug of the two other mounds yielded nothing to our search, though trial-holes 
were put into it and into some elevated ground extending from it into an adjacent, 
cultivated field, on which was some aboriginal debris from dwelling-sites. The 
other mound, circular, about 55 feet in basal diameter, had centrally a circular 
excavation 25 feet in diameter at the top, but converging. This excavation, made, 
we are told, by a former owner of the property, was not altogether deep, though 
diggings of small diameter extended well down in places. 
The original height of this mound was indeterminate as the excavation referred 
to had been made long enough in the past to allow the soil thrown out at that time 
to become covered with vegetation and to appear similar in all respects to the mound 
itself. Probably the original height of the mound was between 3 and 4 feet. 
