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Burial No. 1. — At the center, 2 feet 3 inches down, were a few badly decayed 

 fragments of long-bones showing serious inflammatory disease. 



Burial No. 2. — 2 feet down, 3 feet from center, was a single skull. Part 

 immediately with this skull and part between it and Burial No. 1, were thirteen 

 small arrowpoints, some delicately made ; a lancehead ; a small hone ; flakes ; a 

 large arrow or spearpoint; a decayed bone implement and certain bones of a 

 deer and of a rodent. 



Mound VII. — 3 feet high, 24 feet diameter. 



Burial No. 1. — 4 feet down, 3.5 feet from the center, were fragments of human 

 bones including parts of two skulls, burnt and calcined. At first glance it seemed 

 as though cremation had been practised but the presence close to the bones of 

 a hole extending down from the surface, where a stump had burnt out and 

 baked the surrounding clay, showed the fire to have been accidental. Fragments 

 of charcoal from the part of the tree above ground still lay upon the surface. 



Mound VIII.— 3 feet high, 26 feet diameter. 



Burial No. 1. — 5 feet from center, 2 feet down, were a skull, a tibia and a 

 femur. 



Burial No. 2. — 1 foot 10 inches down, were fragments of a skull in caved soil. 



Burial No. 3. — 4 feet from center, 3 feet 8 inches down, was a skull with some 

 cervical vertebrae and part of one shell bead. 



Burial No. 4. — 2 feet from center, 4 feet down, lay a pelvis, a bit of femur 

 and other loose bones nearby. With these were a hammer-stone and an awl 

 chipped from a pebble. 



Burial No. 5. — 3 feet 8 inches down, 4.5 feet from the center, were two femurs 

 and heel bones. 



Mound IX. — 3 feet high, 22 feet diameter. 



Burial No. 1. — 5 feet from center, 2 feet down, a lone skull and a lancepoint. 



Burial No. 2. — 3 feet 6 inches from center, 2 feet down, were scattered frag- 

 ments of bones. 



Burial No. 3. — 3 feet 4 inches down, were a skull and a few cervical vertebrae. 

 Another skull lay above. 



Burial No. 4. — At center, 8 inches down, were some long-bones. 



Mound X. — 3 feet high, 20 feet diameter. This mound was the only one 

 investigated by us which had been ploughed over. 



Burial No. 1. — 2.5 feet from the center were one tibia and part of a pelvis. 



Burial No. 2. — 2 feet from the center lay a solitary skull near the surface. 



Burial No. 3. — At the center, 2.5 feet down, were a skull, a humerus and 

 some vertebrae. With them were : pebbles ; a pebble-hammer ; a bone piercing 

 implement ; an arrowpoint ; a cannon bone of a deer ; decayed shell beads. 



At Bickley's Landing, as we have stated, our investigation of the Tombigbee 

 river was abandoned. Though the results cannot be considered of great interest, 

 there are points to. which it may be well to call the attention of the reader. 



Presumably cemeteries, unmarked above ground, are on the Tombigbee as 



