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when it was made." Certaiuly a relic so highly spoken of by such com- 

 petent authority justifies all the information relative to it which could 

 be obtained. 



Fig. 6. Eagk' pipe, from Naples, HI. 



On the right bank of the Illinois River, about 300 yards below Griggs- 

 ville Landing, rises a lofty bluff fully 300 feet above the level of the 

 river. On the summit is a beautiful, oval mound, 150 feet long, 92 feet 

 wide in the middle, and 25 or 30 feet high. The following outline, Fig. 

 7, will give an idea of its appearance. 



Large oval mouud, near Naples, 111. 



Daniel Burns, John W. Windsor, and others, about forty years ago, 

 were engaged in digging a grave on this mouud, when the spade turned 

 out a stone bowl about G inches in diameter across the top and about 

 4 inches deep. Deposited in the bowl was found the eagle pipe, another 

 bird pipe, a frog pipe, and a copper gouge about G inches in length. 

 This locality has afforded many valuable relics of prehistoric man, and 

 it is a matter of regret that they did not fall into the hands of persons 

 who knew or appreciated their scientific value. 



Just south of the large mound above described, on the next point, are 

 five circular mounds about 30 feet in diameter and 10 or 12 feet high. 

 Indeed, within a radius of 5 miles from Naples there are at least fifty 

 mounds, very few of which have ever been oi>ened. 



After the foregoing description of these mounds and the articles found in 

 them was written, the Smithsonian Institution, in December, 1879, began 

 a through exploratioti of them. On the 10th of December, Mr. Merrill and 



