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and Flint river, but, as in the rase of ninny of the other sites in 

 the region, they must be here passed without further mention. 



Fobear Mound No. I. — A group of four mounds was found 

 on the land ot Mr. Leonard I'obear on the south side of the Cass 

 river nearly opposite the Wille cache, Or about four miles above 

 aw. One of these was thoroughly explored in 1894 and a 

 number of skeletons, besides fragments of pottery, chips of ( liert 

 and other objects of like nature were found in it. Persons not 

 acquainted with archaeological field-work often ask how the ex- 

 plorer knows where to dig, heme a brief outline of the begin- 

 ning of operations at this mound may be of some interest. ( I D 



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Harlan I. Smith, I 



THE EASTERN OF THE OREEN 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 

 r the middle of it, he noticed in the short mead<> ome 



yellow soil which had been thrown up out of a woodchuck bur- 

 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 su< h bit »und 



anywhere in the surfa< e soil of the neighboring fields. A human 

 tooth lying among the 1 human 



