428 PRE-IIISTORIC MOUNDS OF GRANT COUNTY, WISCONSIN. 



the circular mound for about 18 inclies, consisted of a sandy clay, which 



was easily removed with a shovel alone. All below this consisted of a 



very compact clay, containing but little sand, so hard 



that a pick was necessary, and the point would not 



penetrate more than an inch or two at a stroke. So 



great was the difference in the compactness of the 



clay in the two mounds excavated, that it occurred 



to me that the circular mound might have been 



stamped or rammed, or otherwise compacted at the 



time when it was built 5 perhaps for the purpose of 



protecting the corpse againstthe attacks of prowling 



animals. 



I do not think that the most skeptical person could 

 regard this as an intrusive burial of a date more 

 recent than the formation of the mound. It bears 

 no internal evidence of ever having been disturbed ; 

 and externally the mound precisely resembles all the 

 others in this vicinity, and hundreds of others in 

 different localities which we are accustomed to at- 

 tribute to the mound-builders. 



10. S. E., i sec. 19 W., ^ of sec. 20, S. W. 1 sec. 

 17, S. E. i sec. IS, all in T. G, E. 6 W.— All these 

 several localities aj)pear to be component parts of one 

 grand chain, series, or procession of mounds. This 

 procession may be said to begin near the residence 

 of lion. Robert Glen, not far from the line between 

 sections 10 and 30, of T. C, R. G W. The first seen 

 are the four round ones, in the orchard near the 

 house, (Diagram I.) They seem to be in a manner 

 set apart from the rest, as quite a distance intervenes 

 between them and the first long one, and they are 

 the only ones of the circular kind. 



Figures 1 and 2 (Diagram I) represent two efifi- 

 gies, slightly different in shape and size. From their 

 appearance on the ground no resemblance to any 

 particular animal could be detected. Pursuing a 

 northeasterly course, quite a remarkable series of 

 long straight mounds is found, effigy and circular 

 mounds being entirely absent. 



It will be noticed that the mounds are situated in 

 a continuous line, and not in several parallels, or 

 grouped about, as in some other instances. This • 



line conforms in its irregularities exactly to the crest 9 



of the ridge, so that they command an extensive view O 



on both sides of the ridge. These mounds, witli one Diagram I. 



or two exceptions, have all been under cultivation : which has somewhat 



