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stones." In the original Spanish the words '' tirar piedras co hondas" are used, so 

 there can be no doubt as to the meaning of the author. 



Two bits of potterj- with small check stamp were in the body of the mound. 



In the margin of that part of the mound embraced between NE. and S. of E., 





Fig. 54. — Vessel of earthenware. Mound near .Anderson's Bayou, {.ibout four-fifths size.) 



the usual deposit of pottery, made for the dead in common, began and continued in, 

 at intervals, to the center of the mound. The vessels, which lay along the base and 

 were unassociated with burials, all had, as far as noted, the usual basal perforation. 

 Many were badly crushed and the ware of nearly all was most inferior. With two 



21 JOUEN. A. N. S. PHILA., VOL. XII. 



