184 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OF THE ALTAMAHA RIVER. 



the kind permission of Mr. E. E. Minis, of Elliott, Ga. The mound, as usual, was 

 of unstratified sand. A small pocket of calcined bones was about 6 feet from the 

 center. Three feet and five feet from the center, respectively, were decaying frag- 

 ments of a skull and of a skull and a humerus. Near one of these skulls was a 

 handsome chisel of sedimentary rock about 7 inches long. Three feet from the cen- 

 ter, on the base, was a iiexed skeleton badly decayed. Near the cranium lay a 

 well-made hatchet of polished rock about 8 inches long. 



Mound at Gkay's Landing, Tattnall County. 



At Gray's landing, 120 miles by water from Darien, was a small mound 23 feet 

 in diameter and 1 foot 4 inches in height. It was dug through by us with the per- 

 mission of Mr. J. W. Matthews, the owner, resident nearby. It was composed of 

 clayey sand. Sherds and fragments of chert were abundant, but no human bones 

 were met with. 



