710 The American Naturalist. [August, 
at a distance of 10 feet from the surface. As a rule, the cera- 
mic ornamentation consisted of incised lines, several of novel 
pattern. One specimen showed interior decoration, the outer 
surface being plain. Another had been scratched upon the 
surface subsequent to the completion of the pottery (Fig. 1). 
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Fig. 1. (Full size.) 
Three feet from the surface, in excavation 3, a vessel was 
uncovered, uninjured, with the exception of a small chipping 
from a portion of therim. The material was of inferior qual- 
ity. Its decoration varied, consisting of lines and dots in 
. various combinations. The body of the bowl was plain. Its 
diameter at the mouth which was irregular but nearly circu- 
lar, was from 81 inches to 72 inches. Its height was 4 inches. 
Its average thickness of material was .3 of an inch. In form 
it resembled a bowl, a common shape in the sand mounds. 
Various partially broken vessels were found unornamented 
and presenting no peculiarity. One contained a mass of 
unbaked clay. 
Nine and a half feet from the surface was found what at 
the time was considered a fragment of a large bead of pottery 
(Fig. 2), and not until two similar and more complete objects 
were met with in the adjoining burial mound (Figs. 3 and 4) 
: was the conclusion arrived at that it was a portion of a 
tobacco pipe. 
