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PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 



SE. J Sec. 33, in Clear Lake Township, is a group of five mounds. It 

 lies on a hillside sloping toward the stream, and a quarter of a mile to 

 tlie east of South Fork. The following plan shows grouping location : 

 Mounds 1 to 3 are round, 50 or 60 feet in diameter, and 18 or 20 inches 

 high. Mounds 4 and 5 are about 50 feet long, by 30 wide, and 18 inches 

 high. Lines drawn through the center of 4 and 5, from end to end, 

 would meet in the center of 1. These mounds are 100 feet apart. No 

 exploration was attempted. The ground is in cultivation as grass 

 land, but the mounds are still quite distinct. Back on the bluff, to the 

 east a short distance, was the prairie ; to the west a quarter of a mile, 

 South Fork ; on the north and south small spring branches. 



WATSON MOUNDS. 



A quarter of a mile south of the bridge, where the Clear Lake wagon- 

 road crosses Sangamon River, in Clear Lake Township, on the SE. ^ of 

 the SE. ^ Sec. 21, is a group of four mounds. The following sketch will 

 show the location of the mounds with regard to each other, as well as 

 to the surrounding natural features: 



FlG. 5. — Watson Mounds, Sangamon County, Illinois. 



Mounds 1 to 3 are round, 1 and 3 being probably 30 feet in diameter 

 by 18 inches in height, while mound 2 is about 40 feet in diameter by 

 18 or 20 inches in height. Mound 4 is about 40 feet long, east and west, 

 by 20 feet in breadth, and 18 inches in height. Mounds 1 and 2 are 

 probably 50 feet apart ; 2 and 3 are 150 yards apart ; 3 and 4 about 100 

 feet. No excavation was made. The mounds follow the line of the bluff 

 north and south. The ground at the south end of the bluff has been 



