846 PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 



a mou-nd of considerable size. It is marked 6 on the map. It had been 

 worked down with the plow, when I saw it, till only a slight elevation 

 remained visible. It was said to have been 25 feet broad at the base 

 and 4 feet high. I made extensive excavations on its cite, but found 

 nothing. Mr. N. W. Brass, who was brought up from childhood in the 

 vicinity, informs me that there was once a small one near it. 



Let us now return to group No. 4, on section 33. Going from that point 

 a little more than half a mile in a northeasterly direction, we arrive at the 

 location marked 7, on the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of 

 the same section, on the farm of Charles Dailey. Here were formerly a 

 great number of small mounds, scattered over a considerable area. That 

 they were burial mounds, and not natural undulations of the surface^ 

 was proved by digging into them. All of them have disappeared. 



Something more than a mile farther to the northeast, on the farm of 

 H. B. Smith, on the southeast quarter of section 27, we come to 

 the site of another mound, marked 8, all traces of which have disap- 

 peared. My wife, who was among the early settlers, remembered it well, 

 and confirmed the accounts of it received from others. Mr. Smith rep- 

 resented it as 30 feet or more in diameter and 4 feet high. A small ex- 

 cavation was once made in it and a skull taken out. When I visited the 

 place two thrifty peach trees were growing where the mound formerly 

 stood. 



I forgot to mention, in connection with group No. 4, that there are sev- 

 eral dug-holes a short distance from the mounds. They are all perfectly 

 circular and perfectly bowl-shaped. I carefully cleaned out one of them,; 

 examining every spadeful of earth thrown out, but found no relics. When 

 cleaned out to its original size, as nearly as I could judge, it was 7 feet iu 

 diameter and 3 feet deep. There is no raised margin about any of them., 



The only mounds in the township of Greenbush of which I have 

 any knowledge are situated on section 11. One, marked 9, which I 

 visited in July, 1878, was about 20 rods north and the same distance 

 east of the center of the northwest quarter of the section, on the farm 

 of P. Jefiferys. It was in a grove of heavy oak timber, in a tract of 

 country considerably broken by low hills. Its form was circular. I 

 did not measure it, but judged that it was 35 feet in diameter and 4 feet 

 high. Mr. Jefiferys informed me that, before it had been disturbed, 

 there was a perfectly level area 12 or 15 feet in diameter on the top. 

 It was, in fact, according to his description, a regular truncated cone. 

 Somebody had made a large excavation down into the center. It was 

 reported that nothing was found. Another mound, said to be broader 

 and flatter than the one above described, was reported to be situated 40 

 or 50 rods southwest of it. I spent considerable time in searching for it, 

 but the forest being filled with an undergrowth of shrubs and small 

 trees, almost impenetrable,,, I wa,8 not successful. Of its existence, 

 however, there is no doubt. 



