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"A smaller mound, 418 feet east of the south end of the Big 

 Mound, was examined." This mound was nearly circular, SCO feet 

 in circumference, 14 feet high, 8 feet above the present surface of 

 the country, as 6 feet of stratified sands and clays have been de- 

 posited on the bottom since the mound was formed. In this mound 

 were found ashes, shells, charcoal, fragments of bones and pots. 

 Nothing of any great value. 



" In Township 23, Range 15 East and Sec. 26, and about 6 miles 

 E. N. E. of New Madrid, we opened a small mound, from which we 

 obtained all the articles sent which are not otherwise designated. 



small place on one side. This mound was circular in form. 



" The pots and jars were found in a circle near the circumference, 

 or perhaps two-thirds of the distance from the centre of the mound 

 to the outer edge, and on the original ground beneath the mound. 

 We found the base of the mound, when the earth was carefully re- 

 moved, discolored with dark stains on the earth in the shape of a 

 human body, with head to the pot and the feet towards the centre 

 of the mound ; also, the position of the skeleton was marked by 

 traces of whitish, calcareous earth. We also found some fragments 

 of the enamel of teeth just within the line of the pots where the 

 form of the head was shown. These bodies seemed to have been 

 placed as closely together as possible, and a pot or jar at the head 

 of each. So regularly were they urranged that we could find them 

 by following up the circle after we had di-eo\ ured the key. There 



were in this circle. 



"It appeared as if the bodies had been placed in position, and 



them. In the middle of the mound we found with the earth, 

 ashes, coal, fragments of shells (Unionidce) and broken pottery. 

 I found one Fusus near one of the jars iu the circle. 



" Everything in this mound was greatly decomposed by time and 



