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There is a fine group on section twelve, township
fourteen, range ten, occupying
prairie ground near a branch of Grand river. Further up this river
(on section eleven,
township fourteen, range eleven) is a collection of about one
hundred mounds,
mostly of the same form. Only one was sufficiently perfect to
admit of being
surveyed and delineated. It is called the "Man" and
is remarkable for the unequal
length of the arms. (Fig. 26.) It had been opened before our visit.
The head pointsto the south,
and towards a high hill called Mount Moriah.The soil is sandy,
and the mounds do not, therefore, preserve their
original shape as distinctly as in other localities. The round
mounds are worn down and spread out, so as to
form [page65:] a very flat cone. In one was found the skeleton
of a man, with fragments of pottery, &c.
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Lapham, I.A. The Antiquities of Wisconsin.Washington,
DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1855 <http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/Antiquities/antiqC04.html#p64>.
The entire contents ofAntiquities of Wisconsin
is available online at http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/Antiquities/.
Electronic edition © 1999 Board of Regents of the University
of Wisconsin System.
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