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and Flint river, but, as in the case of many of the other sites in 
the region, they must be here passed without further mention. 
Fobear Mound No. 1.—A group of four mounds was found 
on the land of Mr. Leonard Fobear on the south side of the Cass 
river nearly opposite the Wille cache, or about four miles above 
Saginaw. One of these was thoroughly explored in 1894 and a 
number of skeletons, besides fragments of pottery, chips of chert 
and other objects of like nature were found in it. Persons not 
acquainted with archeological field-work often ask how the ex- 
plorer knows where to dig, hence a brief outline of the begin- 
ning of operations at this mound may be of some interest. On 
Harlan I. Smith, Photo. 
THE EASTERN OF THE GREEN POINT MOUNDS FROM THE SOUTH. 
first visiting this locality, the author viewed it from several 
directions and felt that the mound was of such slight elevation 
and so much like the natural knolls in the same meadow with it 
that it might be only a natural rise in the ground; but, on walking 
over the middle of it, he noticed in the short meadow grass some 
yellow soil which had been thrown up out of a woodchuck bur- 
row. Such material must have come from below the reach of the 
plow, since all the surface soil was black. In the yellow earth 
were several fragments of pottery, but such bits are to be found 
anywhere in the surface soil of the neighboring fields. A human 
tooth lying among the potsherds suggested the idea that a human 
