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tance west of the town of Seneca, La Salle County, and very close to 

 the bluff bordering the Illinois River. The bottom is very wide at this 

 point, and so high as never to overflow. There were G5 found in the 

 center of a pond on the south side of the river, which ranged in size from 

 about 2 inches wide by 2| inches long to about 3 inches wide by 4 long, 

 and were manufactured undoubtedly from nodules, as they show the cir- 

 cles plainly, similar to fortification agates, and were most likely made 

 and used for the same purpose as those described by J. F. Snyder, M. 

 D., in the Smithsonian Report for 1.87G, that were found near Frederick- 

 ville and at Beardstown, in this State. They were probably placed in 

 this pond for safe keeping or as a place of concealment, as it was a num- 

 ber of years ago running water, fed by a large spring or springs. It is 

 now drained, and in digging the ditch to the center of it these disks 

 were found two feet below what is now the surface, in a pile, as though 

 they had been placed there. The proprietor, Mr. Osborn, thinks they 

 were being transported in a canoe, which was capsized at this point. 



Holbrook, W. C. — Is preparing map of all the groups of mounds and 

 earthworks along Rock River and its tributaries in Whitesides County. 



Kilian, Ed. A. — States that there are near Edwardsville, Madison 

 County, remains of many ancient earthworks, of which an investigation 

 will be made. 



Locke, W. M.— Wabash bottom, White County, is full of mounds: 

 Mr. Locke has opened many, but in the low bottoms they are poor in 

 relics. In a row of seven opened nothing was found. 



McAdams, William. — Caverns exist about the Grand Pass, Greene 

 County. 



McClelland, M. A. — There are but few mounds within the limits of 

 Crawford County. In Scott Township, Vanderburg County, Indian;) , is a 

 group of five or six mounds, and near by a conical pit, from which they 

 were probably constructed. Northeast, about half a mile, occur two 

 other mounds, much larger. 



Ong, J. L. — Several mounds in the vicinity of Coulterville. 



Partridge, H. E. — Lake County abounds in mounds, mostly circu- 

 lar, solitary and in groups. 



Rogers, O. P. — Mounds are found near Clintonville (South Elgin), 

 forty in number, near bank of Fox River, tour miles below Elgin City, 

 Kane County. Survey and plots are promised. 



Schneck, J. — Wabash County is rich in mounds, Indian towns, &c. 

 Mr. Schneck is preparing a map of the county. 



SHALLENBERGER, J. M. — A group of fifteen mounds occurs east of 

 Cambridge, not surveyed. 



Sibley, H. F. — Two deposits of disks were found in Wayne County, 

 one in White County, and one in Jefferson. The first contained 37, 

 the second 4<> specimens. Examined a group of fifteen mounds in 

 Massillon Township, on west side of the river, on a high bluff. Seven 

 mounds in Barnhill Township, just east of Fairfield, Wayne County. 



