PRINCIPAL MOUNDS IN THE DES MOINES VALLEY. 



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observation, as it overlooks the one lying north of it, and from its sum- 

 mit the Trawell group is visible. No. 2 of the Sugar Creek group was 

 also examined and a few bones diseovered. It is GO feet in diameter and 

 180 feet in circumference, and has growing on it trees over one foot in 

 diameter. The decayed trunk of a large tree was found lying on its 

 summit. A few bones were discovered here, including a portion of the 

 skull bone, which was so much decayed as to fall to pieces upon exposure 

 to the air. Xo implements, not even broken arrow-heads, were found 



Diagram. 



ANCIENT WORKS IX THE VICINITY OF OTTUMWA, IOWA. 



No. 1. Mound <>n section 13, township 72, range 14. 



No. 2. On section 21, township 7v>, range 13; known as the Sugar Creek mounds. 



Nos. :', and 4. On section i:t, township 72, ranee 13; known as tin- Trawell and Stiles 

 mounds, respect ively. 



Nos. 5and(i. On sections 7 and 8, township 71, range 13; known as the Village 

 Creek mounds. 



Scale of diagram: Five-eighths of an inch to the mile. 



here. East of Mound No. 1, and one-fourth of a mile distant, the re- 

 mains of an ancient furnace or hearth were found, and in the vicinity of 

 the hearth a number of arrow-heads. This furnace presented the ap- 

 pearance of great age, and was fust brought to my notice by ('apt. W. 

 H. Kittermau, a very intelligent observer and an old settler in the 



