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mound, a number of parts of vessels, of inferior ware, as were all the vessels in this 

 mound, bearing the small check-stamp, were encountered. Just behind these were 

 six vessels together, one, undecorated, of rather graceful, elliptical section, with a 

 hole knocked through the base, in common with all vessels from this mound. Four 

 vessels of this deposit are undecorated ; the sixth has a series of roughly incised, 

 diagonal, parallel lines, around the neck which, long and flaring, rises from a 

 globular body. 



Just to one side of these was a mass of sherds from various vessels, and a little 

 farther in, were two pots with portions missing, one having a faint complicated 



Fig. 157.— Decoration ou vessel sliowii in Fig. 156. Mound near Sampson's Landing. (Half size.) 



stamp, the other undecorated. With these was a graceful jar of about three quarts' 

 capacity, shown in Fig. 155, having a flat, square base. Around the neck is a com- 

 plicated stamp-decoration. Near this jar was a vessel in fragments, having a com- 

 plicated stamp, and a rude pot also with a stamped decoration nround the neck. 



Somewhat farther in the same direction, well toward the center of the mound, 

 were four pots and bowls, three broken and undecorated. The fourth vessel (Fig. 

 156) has a curious, incised design, evidently symbolical, shown diagrammatically in 

 Fig. 157. Part of the rim has been restored. A few feet to one side of this vessel 

 was a pot with parallel lines roughly incised beneath the rim. 



This was the last occurrence of earthenware met with by us on the Apala- 

 chicola river, and it is interesting to note the persistence of the ceremonial deposit 

 of earthenware in the eastern part of the mounds and the occurrence of the mor- 

 tuary mutilation of the base. 



Mounds near Chattahoochee Landing, Apalachicola River, 

 Gadsden County (7). 



On the river's bank, at the landing, half cut away by the wash of freshets, is 

 part of a domiciliary mound of clay, formerly circular in outline. Height, 7 feet ; 

 diameter of base, 78 feet; diameter of summit plateau, 38 feet. 



A short distance farther up, along the bank, is the wreck of a large mound 

 half washed away by the river. This mound, of clay, has several frame buildings 

 upon it. Its height is 11 feet. 



