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to be scattered over more thau GOO acres. They are not close together 

 or uniformly distributed, but in separate groups. Large quantities of 

 broken pottery are scattered around the foundations, some of it very 

 prettily marked. The foundations are similar to those previously de- 

 scribed. Rows of upright undressed stones, metates, and a few mortars 

 were discovered. One of the mortars, near a small stream, had been 

 hollowed out in a shelf of solid rock and was 300 feet distant from the 

 remains of buildings. 



Judging from the pottery found in the tumuli, the people must have 

 cremated their dead and buried the ashes in urns without any of their 

 trinkets or other property. The large mound exj^lored certainly had 

 not been disturbed, and yet revealed no relics. 



The Apache Indians, who have inhabited this region since the com- 

 ing of the Spaniards, do not creaiate the dead but bury in secluded 

 places, and singly ; they endeavor to remove all traces of the interment. 



In giving the number of the mounds I have not over-estimated, for 

 doubtless a careful search would reveal many more. Some of them are 

 quite small, not containing more than a ton of stone. 



MOUNDS IN HENRY COUNTY, IOWA. 



By George C. Van Allen, of Mount Pleasant^ Iowa. 



The following is a description of three Indian mounds located on Sec- 

 tion 34, Township 72, Range 7 West, in Henry County, Iowa. The hill 

 is about 1,000 feet long, and 300 feet wide from the base on the east to 

 the fence on the west, and is about 120 feet above the level of the corn- 

 field. Major Beremau, of this place, visited these mounds in June, and 

 from one took out a quantity of bones, teeth, and charcoal. Some of 

 the bones were charred an<l some sticks only partly burned. There 

 seemed to be no order iu the burial. The bones were nearly in a heap, 

 and showed that more than one person had been burned and buried 

 there. On July 20th a small party visited the place, took the measure- 

 ments, and made some further excavations, but found nothing beyond 

 some pieces of soft bone, a few bits of charred wood, and a })ink- 

 ish-white arrow-head. No stones were found that seemed to us to have 

 been arranged in any order, but a few were scattered at random through- 

 out the mound. No. 1 is 50 feet north and south by 41 feet east and 

 west; No. 2 is 43 feet north and south by 49 feet east and west; No. 3 

 is 40 feet north and south by 40 feet east and west. The distances from 

 center to center are 107 feet and 50 feet. The height is from 4i to 5 feet 

 at the center. South of No. 3 are the remains of two mounds begun, 

 about one foot deep at the center. 



