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nearly dug away in places, but about one-fifth of the lower portion 
had not been disturbed. From this was exhumed one nearly perfect 
human skeleton, and parts of several others that had been left by 
former excavators. This mound also contained several bones of ani- 
mals, principally of deer, bear, opossum and turtles; fragments of 
pottery, one arrowhead, a few flint chips, and a number of thick 
shells of unios, two of which had been bored near the hinge. From 
this mound a number of human bones have been taken by Dr. H. 
Frank Harper. 
The second mound (J), which was partly opened, was some 
twenty-five feet in diameter and a few feet in height, though proba- 
bly once much higher. In this a number of bones of deer and other 
animals were found, several pieces of pottery, a number of shells and 
afew human bones. The other three mounds, one of which is not 
over ten or twelve feet in diameter and situated the furthest to the 
north, were not examined internally. 
The position of all the mounds within the enclosure, which are 
indicated by the white circles on the cut, is such as to suggest that 
they were used as observatories, and it may yet be questioned whether 
the human and other remains found in them were placed there by 
the occupants of the fort, or are to be considered under the head of 
mtrusive burials by a later race. Perhaps a further study of the 
bones may settle the point. That two races have buried their dead 
within the enclosure is made probable by the finding of an entirely 
- different class of burials at the extreme western point of the fortifi- 
cation, indicated on the engraving by the three quadrangular figures 
at H. At this pomt Dr. Harper, the year previous, had discovered 
three stone graves, in which he found portions of the skeletons of 
two adults and one child. These graves, the stones of one being still 
in place, were found to be made by placing thin slabs of stone on 
end, forming the sides and ends, the tops being covered by other 
slabs, making a rough stone coffin in which the bodies had been 
placed. There was no indication of any mound having been erected, 
and they were placed slightly on the slope of the bank. This kind 
of burial is so distinct from that of the burials in the mound, that it 
is possible that the acts may be referred to two distinct races who 
have occupied the territory successively, though they may prove to 
be of the same time, and simply indicate a special mode adopted for 
a distinctive purpose. ~ 
Mention has been made of a group of fifty-nine mounds a few 
