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Utah. The most important system is in Parowon Valley, fifty miles 

 south of Fort Cameron, township 35 south, range 12 west. 



Pease, W. B. — Speaks of a cave in southwestern part of New Mexico; 

 same mentioned as belonging to Mr. Metcalf. 



Pope, George. — Inscription on rock in Provo Caiion, Utah, described. 



NEBRASKA AND MINNESOTA. 



Allen, C. P. — States that no remains whatever have been found near 

 Eed Lake, Beltrami County, Minnesota. 



Bowdish, W. M. — Beports having opened graves in Houston County, 

 Minnesota, but they are evidently quite modern. 



Bruner, Lawrence. — Many mounds are scattered all through the 

 country between the town of Norfolk and the Verdigris country in Ne- 

 braska, situated on the level bottom lands close to the bluffs and in- 

 variably near the mouth of a ravine running into the bluffs. They 

 vary from 30 to 100 feet in diameter, 3 to 8 feet high, and are covered 

 with vegetation. 



Bunnell, L. H. — Beports a number of mounds on Maggie Burns's 

 farm, Winona County, Minnesota, and in nearly all the larger valleys. 

 At the fertile points adjacent to water a few may be seen. There are no 

 mounds in and about LTomer, but shellheaps are found. The mussels were 

 brought out of the Mississippi Biver by muskrats for their winter food. 

 Opposite Homer, in Wisconsin, a large area is covered with mounds and 

 earthworks. At La Moille there are several small mounds, and a number 

 on Cedar Creek. On Money Creek they are quite numerous, and on Pine 

 Creek they are to be seen at intervals all the way down from Lilh 's. New 

 Hartford, to La Crescent. The largest mounds, a group often near Homer, 

 are ten miles below La Crosse, at the mouth of Coon Creek Valley. The 

 AYinnebagos here have lost all tradition even of the use of stone arrow- 

 heads by their ancestors. White Snake, a chief of the tribe, said in all 

 sincerity that they were not made by the Indians. 



Clark, Martin. — No ancient earthworks are at present known in 

 Clay County, Nebraska. 



Cramy, T. G. — Quite a number of mounds occur in Meeker County, 

 Minnesota, near Litchfield. 



Hurlbut, W. D. — No arch ecological remains have been found in Olm- 

 sted County, Minnesota. 



Morey, C. A. — The region around Winona, in the county of the same 

 name, Minnesota, is rich in aboriginal remains. 



Williams, F. G. — Large stone hammers in Minnesota were halted by 

 means of an elastic sapling to grind food. 



IOWA. 



Allis, Samuel. — Lodge cavities are frequently found on bluffs of the 

 Mississippi Biver, Mills Comity. The usual mode of burial is to dig a large 

 hole in the ground projecting under at the bottom similar to their corn 



