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Another vessel also bearing the check stamp, half filled with calcined remains, 

 had been capped by a vessel or a large part of a vessel represented by small frag- 

 ments when found. 



In another portion of the mound were the remains of two undecorated vessels 

 in small fragments. One had presumably capped the other, judging by the position. 

 A number of incinerated fragments of human bone were present. 



In caved sand from the surface were several other broken vessels with incinerated 

 bone, similar to the foregoing. 



Specimens of the earthenware from the mound at Contentment were sent to 

 the Peabody Museum, Cambridge Mass., and to the Davenport Academy of Science, 

 Davenport, Iowa. 



Low Mounds near Broro Neck, McIntosh County. 



Broro Neck, a settlement of colored people, is about 1 mile northeast of Con- 

 tentment. A mound on the outskirts of the settlement is on the property of Mr. 

 Thomas Grant (colored). Its height is 3 feet 4 inches. It is 55 feet across the 

 base. It was about one-half dug through. At places were great quantities of char- 

 coal and pockets of hematite. A number of deposits of fragments of calcined 

 bones were met with and a few portions of long bones showing no mark of fire. 

 With skeletal remains were : two hammer-stones, one cockle-shell (Cardz'um), one 

 good-sized shell bead. 



About one hundred yards from the preceding mound, on the property of Mr. 

 E. W. Paris (colored), is another mound, which has evidently been ploughed over 

 for a number of years. Its present height is 1 foot 8 inches ; its diameter of base, 

 44 feet. The mound was trenched to the center. About 19 inches from the surface 

 was a deposit of calcined human bones with a small, coarse, undecorated earthen- 

 ware bowl. The surrounding sand was scarlet from admixture of hematite. 

 Nothing else of interest was met with. 



Sapelo Island, McIntosh County. Bourbon. 



Sapelo Island, which, with St. Catherine's and Ossabaw, was reserved for their 

 individual use by the Indians, when much of the coast was ceded away, 1 has a 

 settlement at the northern end reached by turning into a small creek from Sapelo, 

 sound and continuing up this creek a distance of about 2 miles. This settlement, 

 called " Boobone " by the colored inhabitants, is said originally to have received the 

 name Bourbon from French settlers. 



Extending back from the landing is an extensive tract of rich land, undulating 

 with shell deposits, long under cultivation, the property of Amos Sawyer, Esq., of 

 Arlington, R. I., to whom we are indebted for cordial permission to make complete 

 archaeological investigation. 



About one quarter of a mile S. E. by S. from the landing was a mound, the 



1 "The History of Georgia," Captain Hugh McCall, 2 vols., Savannah, 1811, Vol. I, page 37. 



