CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS, APALACHICOLA RIVER. 467 



with, as a surface about .75 of an inch in breadth was present where the cutting 

 edge had been. 



There were also in the mound three arrowheads or knives, of chert, one some- 

 what broken, and one large, round pebble. 



Mound near Blountstown, Apalachicola River, Calhoun County. 



About one mile in a NE. direction from Blountstown Landing, a short distance 

 in from the river, is a mound whose southeastern side, facing the water, is on the 

 edge of a terrace along which the river runs in time of flood (see plan, Fig. ISO). 

 Much of this side of the mound has been eaten away by freshets, leaving it almost 

 perpendicular. 



The mound, on property of Mr. George W. I. Landau, of Patterson, N. J., 

 does not owe its irregularity of shape entirely to the action of the river. The sum- 

 mit plateau slopes gently down from the side bordering the water, and has a maxi- 

 mum height of 19.5 feet, or 2 feet more than the opposite side. On the plateau are 

 the remains of a live-oak, part of which has fallen through decay. The upright 

 portion, 5 feet from the ground, is 16 feet in circumference. 



On the side farthest from the water is a small, graded way reaching from the 

 level ground to the summit plateau. 



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Fig. 130. — Plan of mound near Blountstown. 



