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The mound, which was about one-half dug away, proved to be a dwelling site. 

 Sherds of good quality, some with pinched, some with incised, decoration, but 

 mainly of the small check stamp, were present. 



Pierce Mounds, near Apalachicola, Mound E. 



This mound, which is much spread, has basal diameters of 76 feet N. and S. and 

 82 feet E. and W. The height is 3.5 feet. 



Fourteen holes, each about 3 feet square, were dug to the base. The mound is 

 composed of sand of various shades without admixture of shell. Nothing was found 

 save a single fragment of potteiy. The mound was evidently domiciliary. 



Singer Mound, near Apalachicola, Franklin County. 



This mound, totally demolished by us, was about 1.5 miles in WNW. direction 

 from Apalachicola in a cultivated field, the property of the late Mr. Joseph Singer 

 of that place. 



The mound, almost intact, the usual truncated cone in shape, had a height of 

 5.5 feet ;, a diameter of base of 65 feet. 



The upper portions were of white sand, which probably was the yellow sand of 

 the middle parts of the mound, bleached by sun and rain. Above the base was a 

 stratum of sand blackened by fire, increasing in thickness until the ma.ximum, about 

 2.5 feet, was reached in the central part of the mound. 



Burials, nineteen in all, were met with from the marginal parts of the mound 

 to the center. The bones, as a rule, were so decayed that parts only remained. A 

 few burials were in better condition. 



Burial No. 15, the skeleton of a young person, lay in the black layer near the 

 base and was the only burial found at a depth greater than 2.5 feet from the surface. 

 This skeleton was partly fiexed on the left side. 



Burial No. 10 had been held together in part by ligaments, much of the skele- 

 ton being in order, though part of a scapula lay with the legs. Over this skeleton 

 were a few oyster-shells, as was the case with a number of burials in this mound. 



Burial No. 14 was a skeleton at full length on the back with certain other 

 human bones lying across the legs. 



All other burials were fragmentary. Several lone skulls were met with, and 

 once an isolated portion of a femur. 



No pottery came from this mound with the exception of a few sherds, undeco- 

 rated or with the check stamp, evidently introduced with the sand. 



Two gracefully wrought celts, each about 8 inches in length, lay separate and 

 unassociated. 



Jackson Mound, near Apalachicola, Franklin County. 

 About 2.5 miles in a WNW. direction from Apalachicola, in the verge of 

 woods, on property of Mr. Scipio Jackson, colored, resident on the place, was a 

 mound which was completely demolished by us. This mound, made of sand of vari- 



