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Burial No. 26, 12 feet N. E. by E., was the skeleton of an infant, 1 foot 9 

 inches down, head S. E. The bones were too badly crushed for determination as 

 to position, etc. 



Burial No. 27, 11 feet E. S. E., on the bottom of a pit having a diameter of 

 2.5 feet where it entered the clear yellow sand into which it extended 1 foot 2 

 inches, and 3 feet 10 inches from the surface, was the skeleton of a child about 

 three years of age, flexed on the right side, head S. 



Burial No. 28, 8 feet N. E., 4 feet 10 inches down, let 14 inches into undisturbed 

 sand, was an infant's skeleton somewhat disturbed, probably by the digger. 



Burial No. 29, 8 feet E. by S. was another badly-decayed skeleton of an infant, 

 disturbed in excavation. It lay 5 feet 3 inches from the surface in a deep pit. 



Burial No. 30, 12 feet W. N. W., in the superficial layer of oyster shells, some- 

 what disturbed by the plow, was a deposit of calcined fragments of human bones, 

 the only evidence of the practice of cremation present in the mound. Scattered 

 throughout the deposit were numerous shell beads of different sizes, including 

 thirteen fine specimens some over 1.5 inches in length, probably wrought from 

 columellas of the conch (Fnlgur). These beads were in a much better state of 

 preservation than others in the mound, which we attribute to their being among 

 oyster shells. Above the deposit was an inverted, imperforate drinking cup of shell 

 (Fiitgur perversum) and on the outer edge a discoidal stone of about 2 inches 

 diameter. 



Burial No. 31, 15 feet W. N. W., an infant's skeleton much decayed, 3 feet 

 3 inches from the surface in a small pit extending 1 foot 3 inches below the base of 

 the mound. 



Burial No. 32, N. W. by N., 5- feet, lying on the undisturbed sand, 5 feet from 

 the surface, at one end of a large pit running 26 inches beneath the base, was the 

 skeleton of a male, flexed on the right side, head S. 



Burial No. 33, 5 feet E, in a pit, 5 feet from the surface, were the badly-decayed 

 remnants of the skeleton of a child. Lumps of charcoal lay near by. 



Burial No. 34, 12 feet S. E., a skeleton of a female, flexed on right side, head- 

 ing S. W., in a pit, 3.5 feet from the surface. 



Burial No. 35, 18 feet W. N. W., a skeleton of an infant, just beneath the sur- 

 face, disturbed by the plow. A shell pin was in association. 



Burial No. 36, 41 feet S. S. E., on the bottom of a small pit, 32 inches from 

 the surface, were the remnants of a skeleton in the last stage of decay. Apparently 

 it was flexed on the right side, head S. W. 



Burial No. 37, 38 feet S. S. E., a skeleton of a female, with trunk on the back, 

 knees flexed to the right, head S. E. 



Burial No. 38, 11 feet W. N. W., a skeleton of a male, on bottom of a pit 

 extending into yellow sand, flexed on the right side, head S. 



Burial No. 39, 16 feet W. by N., 3.5 feet down, in a small pit was the skeleton 

 of a female, flexed on the right side, head S. E. 



Burial No. 40, 6 feet S. by E., in a pit, 4 feet 10 inches down, was the skeleton 



