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below this layer, though some lay on it, from which we concluded that the original 

 mound had been increased 3 feet in height and subsequently used for burials. 



About three-fourths of the plateau was dug through by us to a depth of 3 feet, 

 resulting in the discovery of burials as follows : 



Burial No. 1. — With its top 9 inches below the surface, was a vessel (A) of 

 coarse ware, consisting of clay with admixture of pounded shell. The body, which 

 is semi-globular, is undecorated ; the neck is upright and surrounded with perpen- 

 dicular ridges ; the rim is flaring. A good example of this type, Vessel BB, is 

 shown in our account of the aboriginal cemetery at Durand's Bend. 



Fig. 7. — Vessel containing skeletons of infants. Mound at Matthews' Landing. (About one-third size.) 



The vessel has a height of 8.5 inches; a maximum diameter of 14.5 inches; 

 a diameter at the mouth of 12 inches. 



Ranged around the sides were disconnected parts of skulls of several infants, 

 having beneath them and partly around them many other bones, probably the 

 remainder of the skeletons which had been disarticulated and carefully packed away. 



