RUINS AND TRADITIONS.
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Hon the eastern shore of Pascagoula bay


Jackson county, Mississippi, near its
putin, are the ruins of an ancient fortili-
''on. built apparently many centuries,
70 1t appears to have been construct
chiefly of sca-shells. Within this ru-


several feet below the surface, have
zen found charred Goals, and fragments
IN peculiar kind of earthcn ware, to-
'her with many human bodies. Among
rm were discovered parts of a human
r'c'on OF gigantic proportions. The
2pcr part of the skull was said to be suf-
3e"'ly large, to fit loosely over the lar
81 modern heads.


All historical traces of the origin of this


'ess have long disappeared. There
"owever, a tradition still cxtant amongst