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and 2 are on the southern hillside and in the woods. The others are on 

 land that has been in cultivation for twenty years, and stand on the top 

 of the bluff. The writer made an excavation in 1, but found nothing. 



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Fig. 7. — Farr Mounds, Sangamon County, Illinois. 



No particular arrangement of material was noticed. On mound 2 is a 

 white-oak stump, 3 feet in diameter, and a standing white-oak tree 



18 inches in diameter. On the end of the bluff where mounds 14 to 



19 stand have been found some very large stone axes, weighing 9 or 10 

 pounds. To the north of this group, a quarter of a mile or less, was the 

 prairie; on the north side of the bluff, springs ; on the east, a spring 

 branch ; on the south, Sugar Creek. 



MUD LAKE MOUND. 



At the south end of Mud Lake, in Clear Lake Township, on the NE. 

 ^ of the NE. £ Sec. 17, is a mound that may with some propriety be 

 called a " connecting link" between the mound builders and the modern 

 Indians. It is situated on the bluff 40 or 50 feet above the water, and 



