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from excavations near the base, whence material for the mound came, it seems 

 much higher. It is circular in outline, 172 feet across the base, with a diameter 

 of 100 feet on the summit plateau. This mound, of great value to the owner, 

 to pen stock in time of freshet, was entrusted to us with a courtesy that marked 

 so many mound proprietors of Mississippi and of Alabama. As excavations on 

 the sides, though refilled, would leave the mound subject to wash when exposed 

 to water, trenches were dug on the summit plateau only. A number of these 

 showed the mound to be of clayey sand with here and there fire-places and refuse 

 material. This mound, like others of its class, was erected, doubtless, as a living 

 site and a place of refuge. 



Mound at Windham Landing, Pickens County, Ala. 

 This mound, on the edge of a cultivated field, about 150 yards N.W. from the 

 landing, on property of W. B. Peebles, Esq., of Vienna, Ala., was 19 feet in 

 diameter and 1 foot 8 inches high. The removal of two-thirds of the mound, 

 including the center, showed neither burial nor artifacts. 



Mound at Cook's Landing, Greene County, Ala. 

 In a cultivated field, about 300 yards in a N. N. E. direction from the landing, 

 on property of J. C. Childs, Esq., of Warsaw, Ala., is a mound covered with trees, 

 very symmetrical, 5 feet high, 35 feet across the base. Previous to our coming, a 

 trench had been dug in from the margin and the immediate center of the mound 

 removed. The southern half of the mound was dug through by us, showing it to 

 be of clayey sand in places and of clay in others. No bones or artifacts were found. 



Mound near Hilman's Landing, Sumter County, Ala. 



In a cultivated field about one-half mile S. E. from Hilman's Landing is a 

 mound 6.5 feet in height, on property of J. J. Hilman, Esq., of Epes, Ala. Wash 

 of water in time of freshet had given it a rather irregular outline. Its diameter of 

 base is about 108 feet, and that of the summit plateau is 62 feet. As houses were 

 upon it, and as it was clearly of a domiciliary type, no digging was done by us. 



Camp-site, East Bluffport Landing, Greene County, Ala. 

 At East Bluffport, on property of Mr. James Hewbanks, colored, are extensive 

 fields, over which the river has swept at times, giving them the appearance of the 

 cemetery at Durand's Bend on the Alabama river, which we have described in 

 another Report. Arrowheads of chert, small bits of human bone and fragments of 

 pottery are abundant in places, but, unlike the case at Durand's Bend, the potsherds 

 were, as a rule, small and undecorated, coming, seemingly, from cooking utensils of 

 moderate size rather than from great burial urns or from the decorated vessels that 

 usually surmounted them. A careful examination of the territory yielded nothing 



