Near the center of the mound a single skeleton was found in a sitting position, and no objects were about it except a single sea-shell resting on the earth _just over the head_, and a number of the bone awls, already described, _sticking in the sand around the skeleton_. The individual had been seated upon the sand, these awls stuck around him in a circle 4 or 5 inches in the sand, and the work of carrying dirt begun. When the mound had been elevated about 6 inches above the head the shell was laid on and the work continued. The shell alluded to is a fine specimen of _Busycon perversum_, with the columella removed in order to form a drinking cup. The particular point to which I call attention is this: In Plate XI, Part II of De Bry,[21] which is reproduced in the annexed Plate IV, is represented a very small mound, on the top of which is a large shell, and about the base a circle of arrows sticking in the ground. The artist, Le Moyne de Morgues, remarks, in reference to it, "Sometimes the deceased king of this province is buried with great solemnity, and his great cup from which he was accustomed to drink is placed on a tumulus with many arrows set about it." The tumulus in this case is evidently very small, and, as remarked by Dr. Brinton,[22] "scarcely rises to the dignity of a mound." Yet it will correspond in size with what the Naples mound was when the shell was placed upon it; nevertheless the latter, when completed, formed an oval tumulus 132 feet long, 98 feet wide, and 10 feet high. It is therefore quite probable that Le Moyne figures the mound at the time it reached the point where the shell cup was to be deposited, when, in all likelihood, certain ceremonies were to be observed and a pause in the work occurred. Whether this suggestion be correct or not, the cut and the statement of Judge Henderson furnish some evidence in regard to the presence of these articles in the mounds, and point to the people by whom they were placed there. [Illustration: FIG. 16.--Group of mounds and hut-rings, Brown County, Illinois.] [Illustration: PL. IV. A MOUND, FROM DE BRY.]