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Burial No. 1. — 2 feet to 3 feet from the center, 4 feet down, on the base, was 

 a lone skull with a few rough shell beads. 



Burial No. 2. — 3 feet down, a skeleton flexed on the right side, the skull 8 

 feet from the center, the rest of the skeleton extending toward it. 



Burial No. 3. — 2 feet down, about 6 feet from the center, a bunch of bones 

 with two skulls. 



The second mound, 50 paces in an easterly direction from the former, was 26 

 feet across the base and 2 feet high. Traces of a small trench were apparent. 

 The mount was dug through by us. 



Near the center, 2 feet down, was a skull, and then, at a distance, thighs, legs 

 and feet. Apparently the earlier trench was responsible for the missing bones. 

 With the skull were a few rough shell beads. 



The third mound was 17 paces in an easterly direction from the second. The 

 base-diameter was 21 feet; the height 3 feet. There seemed to have been no 

 previous examination. The mound was demolished by us except a small marginal 

 part around a tree. Twenty-six inches down, near the center, was a bunched 

 burial with a cranium on top. 



Mounds near West Pace's Landing, Sumter County, Ala. 

 These mounds, of which we located over one dozen, are on Cedar Ridge, which 

 runs through the swamp about 3.5 miles in a S. W. direction from Simmon's Land- 

 ing, on property of J. B. Meriwether, Esq., of Demopolis, Ala. The mounds, of 

 sand and of circular outline are irregularly placed along the ridge which runs in 

 a north and south direction. The most northerly mound has a height of 2 feet, 

 a diameter of 30 feet. The next, with a diameter of 20 feet and 17 inches high, 

 is 94 feet from the former in a S. W. by S. direction. The third mound, 428 feet 

 from the second, is 3 feet high and 33 feet across the base.. The other mounds are 

 less widely separated. None is over 3 feet in height. Unfortunately, the principal 

 ones had been dug into previously in central parts. Supplementary investigation 

 accorded these resulted in the discovery of a few disturbed human bones. Three 

 mounds, apparently intact, were centrally dug out by us. In one nothing was met 

 with. In another were loose bones in three places. The third, near the center, 

 had a skeleton of a young adult, lying at full length on the back. 



Mounds near Moscow, Sumter County, Ala. 



In a cultivated field, about 1 mile in a westerly direction from the landing, on 

 property of Robert W. Larkins, Esq., Coatopa, Sumter County, Ala., was a mound 

 apparently intact in respect to investigation, but much spread through cultivation. 

 The diameter of base is 30 feet; the height, 3 feet. A central excavation was 

 made by us 19 feet by 20 feet, through clayey sand, unstratified, to the base. 



Burial No. 1. — 3 feet down, 8 feet from the center, were several fragments of 

 long-bones under the skull of an adult. 



