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Hakes, also broken triangular arrow-points, all of white flint. They are 

 scattered over a space of about five acres; a great deal of pottery also is 

 lying around which is fast being dissolved by the action of rain, &c. 

 There is no locality near here where this flint could be obtained in such 

 quantities as must have been worked up at this point. 



ANTIQUITIES OF ROCK ISLAND COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 



By Adolpu Toellxer, of Molinc, III. 



Eock Island County is especially rich iu aboriginal remains. In the 

 vicinity of Moline I have discovered about 80 mounds, single and in 

 groups. I have also found shell-heaps several miles in length, three 

 pits dug in the clay, workshops for preparing spear and arrow heads, 

 old cemeteries, together with stone and copper implements in abundance. 

 The mounds are 

 found generally 

 on the banks of 



rivers and their J^fe: ^SwSSwSS 



tributaries, or on ^^rzr^^^§j^m^^nf^ 

 islands, seldom in teijf^#^l'' %W W* 

 the interior. On !il "^ 



Campbell Island, 



Hampton Township, is a cemetery containing 200 or 300 graves. I have 

 seen 10 mounds in Hampton, on Dr. Ottman's farm (Fig. 1) ; 2 on 

 Tohead Island (Fig. 2); 

 4 at Valley City, in Scott 

 County; 7 on Hubbard's 



farm, six miles east of, ( JHMi&i 



Moline; 28 at Deere's X&- ■< 

 farm, one mile east of 

 Moline, as well as many 

 shell-heaps (Figure 4); 

 40 near Black Hawk 



Tower, Milan; 1 large ^ W^W^i WjH 



one five miles east of "^fig 2 



Moline, on Deere's land; 



4 on Davenport's land, within the limits of Moline. Without exception, 

 the mounds occupy the most beautiful prospects in the country. The 

 graves occur indiscriminately on high and low ground. 



One largo mound, five miles east of Moline, on a blnfi', was opened, 

 and disclosed the following structure : (1) 3 feet of soil; (2) 22 iuehes of 

 wood-ashes, mingled here and there with fragments of burnt bones; (3) 

 12 to 14 inches of unburnt bones and charcoal. This stratum has a very 



