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The outline of the bank is nearly square, with rounded angles. 
Broad and deep pits, from which the earth has been taken 
to form the mounds, are on the outside of this bank. 
Mound No. i, "Mound City." 
This mound is seven feet in height, and is fifty-five feet in 
diameter at the base. The "altar" in Mound No. i was of 
burnt clay, perfectly round. The substance of the altar is burnt 
throughout, though in a greater degree within the basin. This 
basin was filled with ashes, intermixed with well-made pottery, 
ornamented with incised patterns, of which No. i (S and D 8), 
Case E 6, is an example ; and with the copper discs upon Tablets 
2 and 3. Above this deposit, and covering the entire basin, 
was a layer of mica, in sheets, overlapping each other, upon 
which, immediately over the centre of the basin, was heaped 
a quantity of burnt human bones, probably belonging to a 
single skeleton. Three strata of sand were observed in this 
mound. 
Mound No. 2, " Mound City." 
This mound is ninety feet in diameter at the base, seven 
feet and a-half in height, and is remarkably broad and flat. The 
altar in No. 2, unlike that in No. i, was in the form of a regular 
parallelogram. At its base it measured ten feet in length by 
eight in width ; at the top it was six feet by four. Its height 
was eighteen inches, and the dip of the basin was nine inches. 
Within the basin there was a deposit of ashes, three inches thick, 
and in it were the fragments of pottery upon Tablets 4 to 
10 (S and D 9, 11, 12), Case E 6, and some shell and pearl 
beads, such as those in Case B 34, upon Tablets 4 to 7. Two 
strata of sand were observed in this mound, the lower of which 
in this, as in several other instances, rested directly upon the 
outer sides of the altar. Two recent secondary interments, by 
inhumation, had taken place in this mound. The skeletons 
were found at the depth of three feet from the surface of the 
mound. They were placed side by side, the head of one 
resting at the elbow of the other. Under and about the heads 
of both were deposited some large rough fragments of green- 
stone. With the skeletons were several stone hatchets, stone 
gouges, a very fine flake of hornstone about the size of the 
palm of the hand, and a number of implements made of bone 
and elk-horn ; see specimens upon Tablets 15 to 25, Case B 34, 
and upon Tablets 16 to 19, Case D 19. 
