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Surface above. 



Black soil, i foot. 



Gravel, one foot. 



Brown earth, 3 inches. (First three layers much disturbed on 



Dull yellow, 3 inches. account of plowing the field.) 



Black, 6 inches. Layers now showing better. 



Sand, 8 inches. The sand was white, beautiful. 



Black soil, with pebbles, 3 to 4 inches. 



Red clay, burnt, 4 to 5 inches. 



Gravel and clay base, 1 foot. 



Surface of ground (bottom). 



The exact center of the mound was filled with a mass of the purest 

 ashes I ever saw. They were white as snow, soft, and must have been 

 sifted or sorted very carefully. Ordinary ashes would contain 

 charcoal flakes and other impurities. We took out over six bushels 

 of this ashes. The mound opening attracted much attention. Some 

 days we had over three hundred visitors. The farmers became so 

 interested in the work that mounds were offered to me by the dozen. 

 When 1 left Frankfort I had over thirty mounds promised to excavate. 

 Had I not been nearly killed by the caving in of a mound, I should 

 have continued digging all winter. I hope to be strong enough to 

 return and continue the work in the spring. 



Warren K. Moorehead. 



Smithsonian Institution, January 23, 1889. 



