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Three human bones covered with elaborate incised carving from Ohio mounds 

 have been described by Professor Putnam and Mr. Willoughby, jointly, in the 

 Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1896, and 

 we are indebted to Mr. Willoughby for the information that there are in the Peabody 

 Museum fragments of two elaborately carved parietal bones from an altar in the 

 famous Turner group of mounds, Ohio. 



Less than half a mile in a westerly direction from the large mound is a mound 

 about 4 feet high, of red clay, which had been so dug into previously that farther 

 investigation was not considered advisable. 



Mound on the Rogers Place, Montgomery County. 



About 1 mile in an easterly direction from the mound on the Charlotte Thomp- 

 son Place is a considerably smaller mound, on the property of Mr. Loraine Rogers, 

 of Montgomery, who kindly placed it at our disposition. 



The mound was partially investigated by us, but as it seemed to be of a 

 domiciliary character it was not extensively dug through. 



Mound near Horse-shoe Bend, Elmore County. 



About 5 miles below Montgomery, on the right side of the river, going down, 

 at the upper end of a bend known as the Horse-shoe, in a cultivated field, about 100 

 yards from the river was a mound bearing no sign of previous examination. Its 

 height was 4 feet 9 inches ; its diameter of base, 40 feet. It was trenched in from 

 the margin considerably beyond the center, with kind permission of Mr. Henry 

 Irvin, of Montgomery, the owner. 



It was of unstratified clay with no sign of sherds, fire-places or bone, and was 

 doubtless erected for domiciliary purposes. 



Mounds in Thirty-Acre Field, Montgomery County. 



At Big Eddy Landing, about one mile below the union of the Coosa and the 

 Tallapoosa rivers, is the plantation of Mr. A. M. Baldwin, of Montgomery, through 

 whose kindness and that of Mr. T. R. Stacey, of Chisholm, Ala., under whose care 

 •the plantation is, we were permitted to make full investigation. 



The Thirty-Acre Field mound, in the midst of a cultivated field bordering the 

 swamp, about one-half mile in an E. by S. direction from the Alabama river, had 

 been at times washed by freshets, but still preserved the shape of an inverted bowl. 

 Its height was 13 feet; its base diameter, 88 feet; the diameter of the summit 

 plateau, 42 feet. 



In order to determine the nature of the mound, about one-half the circumfer- 

 ence, the eastern and the northern portions, were surrounded and excavation along 

 the line of the base was carried in for about 10 feet without discovering interments. 



Next a portion of the trench, about 26 feet across, was carried in 8 feet farther, 

 or almost to the margin of the summit plateau, still with no trace of human remains. 



