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west quarter of southwest quarter section 2, 30 rods south, 45° degrees 

 east, from mouth of Ely's Creek, on high bluff point 100 feet above river 

 bed, 20 rods from water's edge. Decayed white oak stump, 24 inches in 

 diameter, on mound, 12 feet north, 10° west, from center; decayed oak 

 stump, 16 inches in diameter, on mound 4 feet north from center. 

 Found thigh bones (human) under south side of 24-inch stump, 5 feet 

 from surface of mound; also shells as in No. 1; also upper arm bone; po- 

 sition of thigh bones, horizontal ; head west ; lower leg bone doubled 

 under. 



Ketterman, W. H. — Wapello County. Mounds, township 72, range 

 13 west, on a line almost north and south through the county, on highest 

 bluffs, from 75 to 100 feet in diameter, and 4 to 5 feet high. 



Mansfield, J. M. — There are mounds in Henry County, near Mount 

 Pleasant, but no report has ever been made on them. 



Witter, F. M. — Describes mound in prairie, 40 rods from bluff of 

 Iowa River, in Toolesboro, Muscatine County, 100 feet long, 40 feet 

 wide. Copper implements and bones found. Promises map of Mus- 

 cat! ue County in the name of the Academy of Sciences. 



MISSOURI AND KANSAS. 



Ballou, W. H. — Reports progress upon a complete report of the 

 mound-builders of Mississippi County, Missouri. 



Beach, J. W. — On northwest quarter section 32, township 57, range 

 35, Buchanan County, 1A miles south of Saint Joseph, at King mil, are 

 earthworks on a high bald point, facing the Missouri River, partly ob- 

 literated by weathering. The dead were buried very closely together, 

 at length, on the back, east and west, not deep. A plot of the ground 

 promised. 



Black, J. W. — Surveyed an earthwork in Lawrence County, Missouri. 



Drake, I. S. — There are ancient mounds near Mount Vernon, Law- 

 rence County, Missouri. 



Dunlap, J. K — Mounds and earthworks are common in Saline 

 County, Missouri, crowning almost every hill along Missouri River, iso- 

 lated and in groups ; fortification four miles southwest of Miami, on sum- 

 mit of a ridge which terminates in one of the so-called Pinnacles. The 

 following account is from the Miami Index, Saline County, Missouri : 



" It crowns the summit of a ridge which terminates in one of the so- 

 called ' Pinnacles' of this region. There is a double ditch and double 

 embankment, embracing an oval area of 15 acres, and also a secondary 

 ditch and embankment adjoining oil the west, with an area pf perhaps 

 8 or 10 acres. The ditch is now, after the lapse of centuries, in many 

 places 5 or G feet deep. Our reason for using the word centuries is the 

 fad that in the ditch we found stumps of black-oak trees recently felled, 

 measuring from 45 to 50 inches in diameter, and a growing tree that 

 could not be encircled by the extended arms of two large men. 



" The approaches of the elevation on which this fortification is situ- 

 ated are exceedingly steep. 



