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/ 74	MISSISSIPPI A RCHA EOLOG Y
An old Spanish road ran formerly through the group and descended the bluff at the northern base of the principal mound, the traces of which are yet to be distinctly seen (Brown 1996:19-20).
The oldS^anisl^22^|^Wailes describes is still quite visible at the Anna site, aTid Wailes? description of the site layout is amazingly accurate (Brown 1997).
Wailes also offered an excellent description of the Haynes Bluff site (Brain 1988:196?248), located northeast ot Vicksburg along the Yazoo River, a site he visited on June 1, 1853:
Proceeded onward to the plantation of the late Dr Haynes, whose widow, now Mrs Payne, resides in New Orleans. The place now known as Haynes? Bluff is the site of the old French Fort St Peter?s. The house stands on a square indian mound about eight feet high, east of which, distant about 1 / 2 a mile, is a group of mounds, seven in number, the principal one about 50 ft high, 75 ft square on the top and very steep sides. The other small ones rendered by long cultivation so depressed as to enclose a level space of five or six acres. Some of the small ones contain human bones and a quantity of fresh water bivalve shells from the Yazoo.
Below this group, on the plantation of Mrs Fox, there is a group of four small mounds, all of which contain more or less shell, and one of them is a mass of human bones in good preservation, owing probably to the lime contained in the soil and derived from the shell. The base of the bluffs approach near to the mounds, leaving a level bottom of a few hundred yards width bordering the Yazoo River. The limestone rock is seen cropping out in many places at the base of the bluff, with quantities of the madrepore and Eocene shells.
I did not succeed in identifying the exact position of the old Fort where copper crosses, crucifixes, gun barrels, cannon balls, etc, have been found.
Mrs. Payne is said to know all about it, and Mr Blake promises to write to her and obtain the information for me.
According to the previous day?s entry, May 30th, Mr. Blake?s plantation was located in the general vicinity of Haynes Bluff: ?.. .arrived at Mr Blake?s plantation at 4 O?clock obtained boy and skiff and passed through a Bayou and Lake 11/2 miles to Mr Blake?s residence in the hills seven miles distant from Vicksburg by land.? There are several sites referred to in Wailes? description of the Haynes Bluff region. The first, a mound that held the house of Dr. Haynes, is not recorded. The mound complex one-half mile distant