MOUNDS OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 



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through 1 to 4 was being worked, human bones were thrown from one of 

 the mounds, but from which one it could not be ascertained. The 



Fig. 3. — Dawson Mounds, Sangamon County, Illinois. 



builders of these structures were in the neighborhood of everything 

 necessary to savage life, good hunting, fishing, tillable laud, drinking- 

 water, and fuel. 



m'clernard mounds. 



A mile and a quarter south of the junction of South Fork and the 

 Sangamon Eiver, on the east bluffs of South Fork, on the SE. ^ of the 



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Fig. 4. — McClernard Mounds, Sangamon. County, Illinois. 



