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Number 3 occurs about a mile to the westward of group No. 1, just described. 

 " It represents a luiman figure having two heads, which gracefully recline over 

 the shoulders. It is well preserved. The arms are disproportionately long; 

 their full length is not exhibited in the plan for want of room. The various 

 parts of the figure are gracefully rounded ; the stomach and breast are full and 

 well proportioned. DiiMEK.sioNs. — Widths: from one arm-pit over the breast to 

 the other, twenty-five ieet ; over arm at shoulders, twelve, and tapering to four 

 feet at the extremities ; over hips, twenty ; over legs, near the body, eight, and 

 tapering to five ; over figure above the shoulders, fifteen ; over each neck, eight ; 

 over the heads, ten. Lengths : of body, fifty feet ; arms, one hundred and thirty ; 

 neck and heads, fifteen. Elevations : of breast, shoulders, and abdomen, thirty-six 

 inches ; arms at the junction of the shoulders, same height, diminishing towards 

 their extremities to ten inches ; the thighs near the trunk are twenty, at the feet 

 hut ten inches in height." 



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Number 4 lies about four miles west of the village of Muscoda. It may have 

 been intended to represent a bird, a bow and arrow, or the human figure. In the 

 forest near this work are extensive groups of ancient monuments. 



Number 5 is situated on the Wisconsin river, east of the fourth principal 

 meridian. The length of this figure is one hundred and fifty feet ; elevation three 

 feet. Mr. S. Taylor suggests that it is intended to represent the frog ; it 

 approaches nearer the form of a turtle. There are other works of a similar shape 

 n ear by ; also some in the form of a cross, mammillary mounds, and parallelograms. 



Number 6 occurs near group No. 1 of this plate. "It seems to have been 

 intended to represent some fleet animal. It is one hundred feet in length, and 

 eighteen inches high." 



Number 7 is foiuid not far from that last described, and is supposed by Mr. 

 Taylor to represent the turtle. It is seventy-six feet in length, and its greatest 

 height is thirty inches. It is a common figure in Wisconsin. 



Number 8 was situated in Richland county, Wisconsin. Mr. Taylor thinks it 

 was intended to represent a bear. It was fifty-six feet long, and twenty inches 

 high. It has lately been destroyed by the passage of a road over it. 



Number 9 occurs in the vicinity of No. 2, and is the terminating figure of the 

 series of which that is the centre. Earthworks of this form are common in Rich- 

 land county. 



Number 10, near Blue river, English Prairie ; length eighty-four feet, height 

 six feet; supposed to represent a bear. 



Number 11 is found near No. 4. It is very perfect in outline; seventy-nine 



