296 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE ALABAMA RIVER. 



Near the surface, together, were : the iron or steel blade of a knife, two gun 

 flints, vermilion paint and a brass object presumably belonging to a musket or rifle. 



In this mound was an intrusive burial which had been made in a large pine 

 box fastened with hand-made nails. With the skeleton were two brass buttons. 



Mound near Potts' Landing, Moneoe County. 



This mound, the property of Dr. G. G. Scott, of Mt, Pleasant, Ala., who 

 kindly consented to its investigation, is about one mile in a southerly direction 

 from Potts' Landing. 



The mound, in a cultivated field, ploughed over for a long period, is much 

 spread out and very irregular in shape. Its height at present is 5 feet 7 inches ; its 

 basal maximum and minimum diameters are 118 feet and 100 feet, respectively. 



The central part of the mound, dug out by us, showed the material to be a 

 mixture of clay and sand. There were no indications of use as a burial ground. 



MORRISETTE MOUND, CLARKE COUNTY. 



This mound, not far from Marshall's Bluff Landing, in a cultivated field, is 

 about 6 feet high and 40 feet across the base, approximately. Untouched by the 

 plough, owing to the steepness of its sides, it is the most symmetrical mound met 

 with by us on the Alabama river, almost a perfect truncated cone in shape. 



The owner, Mr. Robert Morrisette of Perdue Hill, did not reply to our request 

 for permission to investigate. We refer to the mound here only in the idea that it 

 richly deserves a systematic investigation, permission for which might be obtained 

 should there at any time be a change of ownership. 



Cemetery at Nancy Harris Landing, Monroe County. 



The neighborhood of this landing suffered greatly by the freshet of 1886 

 which wrought such havoc along the banks of the Alabama. 



In conversation with persons living along the river and with colored people 

 resident at the landing, we heard of pots, broken and whole, of tobacco pipes and 

 of human bones, washed up by the Hood, and left scattered over the surface on the 

 subsidence of the water. 



A careful examination was made by us and sounding rods were used in all 

 likely-looking territory, unfortunately without material success, though scattered 

 human bones, fragments of pottery and, in one case, the earthenware head of a bird, 

 which had served as the handle for a vessel, were met with. 



The territory around the landing is of clay covered with sand. This sand, in 

 nearly every instance, had been swept away with the burials it contained, leaving, 

 we fear, little chance for future archaeological work in this vicinity. 



Mound near Webb's Landing, Wilcox County. 

 The mound, showing no mark of cultivation, was in a ploughed field on the 

 flat summit of a small hill, about three quarters of a mile in a northwesterly direc- 

 tion from the landing. 



