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22 sizes are preserved in the diagram. The ground is covered with timber. A stump standing on one of the mounds indicated an age of over two hundred years. The soil was a very hard, sandy clay.

The space A of the diagram was inclosed and used as a hog-lot. None of the mounds were over three feet high. Nos. 1, 5, 4, and 7 were opened, but nothing whatever was found. In No. 2 we found no bones, but two rude vessels, holding about one quart each, made of clay and coarse sand molded on the inside of a grass basket and then burned, as evidenced by the impressions of the grass on the outside. No. 3 contained the remains of several individuals, lying side by side, but too badly decayed to be preserved. No. 6 had been bored through years before for a well; quantities of broken bones were brought to the surface. Our time did not allow of any further explorations. The regularity in the arrangement of the mounds presented a weird appearance in the forest. Some of the mounds on the bluffs opened at same time yielded the same results. On one a white-oak tree, three feet in diameter, was growing. Rude vessels and stone axes have been found in the neighboring mounds.