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of loam and finally by the top layer of natural decomposed vegeta- 

 ble matter. A very notable feature of this whole construction was 

 the irregularity in thickness, shape, and extent of these respective 

 layers as compared with those of mound No. 1. 



A comparison of the complexity of the strata of the body of this 

 mound with the simple stratification of the tail is shown in plate IV 

 and text fig. 6. The latter represents a section across the tail at a 

 point 95 feet from the head end or nearly half way down the length 

 of the undisturbed portion of the mound. 



Here the hardpan floor of the mound rises gently at its middle 

 for about 0.5 of a foot, showing that the excavation had been carried 

 on either side down into the clay for about six inches. A thin 

 layer of yellow sacrificial sand covered this middle section. This 

 was surmounted by a fairly thick layer of grayish sand, over which 

 spread a stratum of fire remains from four to six inches thick. This 



FIG. 6— CROSS SECTION OF THE TAIL OF MOUND NO. 3 



stratum was a continuation of the top fire layer of the body of the 

 mound and part of the remains of the great fire which overspread 

 the entire mound upon its completion. Above this fire stratum 

 at this point was a thin layer, averaging about 0.5 feet thick, of the 

 ordinary loam. 



The nature and placement above this crowning fire stratum of 

 the layer of loam over the whole mound leaves little doubt that 

 after the final fire was burned out the builders placed this layer 

 as the final one on the mound. It is of ordinary loam but quite- 

 different from the black surface layer caused by the decomposition 

 of leaves and the natural accumulation in a timbered spot. 



The end of the undisturbed section of the tail of this panther 

 consisted of a conical mound 12 feet in diameter and with an eleva- 

 tion of 19.08 feet above mean lake level or 1.9 feet above the sur- 

 rounding surface level on the up hill side and about 0.84 feet above 

 the top of the adjacent section of the tail. It was at this point 



