CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE ALABAMA RIVER, 



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Vessel B had been capped by Vessel A, a handsome circular dish of excellent 

 ware without admixture of shell, black in color, thick and highly smoothed. The 

 edge of the rim is decorated with notches, and its interior surface with incised, 

 parallel lines at intervals. Below the rim, on the inside, is incised cross-hatched 

 decoration. Diameter, 16 inches; depth, 4.5 inches (Fig. 2). 



Fig. 2. — Vessel A. Mound near Little river. (Three-eighth 



With a burial, near the head, were : a neat lance-head of quartz ; a small 

 vessel of inferior ware, irreparably broken into fragments, and a pair of ear-plugs 

 somewhat decayed and broken. Each ear-plug has been made of two discs of 

 shell, each somewhat over one inch in diameter. Each pair of discs has been 

 joined together by a sort of mortar composed of calcined shell, pulverized and clay. 1 

 1 Determined by Mr. S. H. Hamilton of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



