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At a place known as Moundville, are some structures quite perfect in their shape
and outline. They are in the oak-openings, on the west side of the river, in townshipfourteen, range nine; and consist of several raccoons and bears, with oblong and round mounds, and one animal form (Fig. 27), whose genus and species could not well be made out.

Lapham, I.A. The Antiquities of Wisconsin.Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1855 <http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/Antiquities/antiqC04.html#p65>.

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