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The field-notes accompanying: tliis drawing are as fol- 

 lows : '' Man-shaped mound in N. \V. ^ of sec. 21, T. 8, 11. 6 

 W. — very short legs, thick body, and long arms. There are 

 three more exactly similar to this, a little further west in a 

 ploughed field." Then follow in the field-notes rude 

 sketches of the three, without dimensions, of which trac- 

 ings are given (Figs. 7, 8, and 9), and the only notes are 

 as follows : '' Three eflQgies in a ploughed field." 



The next two drawings (Fig. 10 and 11) are pencil- 

 sketches of bird mounds made by Mr. Strong, on a scale 

 (No. 10, of 50 feet to an inch, and No. 11 of GO feet to an 

 inch). The following remarks in relation to these mounds 

 is all the information that the field-notes supplj": 



" Bird- mound in S. E. a of sec. 19, T. 8, E. G W. No. 10." 



" No. 10 lies about 50 feet N. E. of No. 11, and is 50 feet 

 from tip to tip of the wings." 



"No. 11 is a biid. Lies on crest of ridge on end of it, 

 toward the Miss. Eiver, where the ridge splits up." 



The field-notes contain the following in this connection : 

 " The creek which runs through sees. 27, 28, 29, 30, T. 8, 

 E. C W. forms a little table about a mile above its mouth, 

 which is covered with mounds, but so overgrown with brush 

 that it is hard to make them out. The valley is narrow 

 and walled in with cliffs of lower magnesian limestone 200 

 feet thick. Potsdam sandstone does not appear. Timber 

 in this part of the country is scattering white-oak." 



The next drawing (Fig. 12) is made from a sketch in the 

 field-notes. 



In reference to this drawing (Fig. 12) the field-notes con- 

 tain the following: "Monday, June 7. — Mounds on the 

 Black Eiver road on S. E. i sec. 24, T. 8, E. 6 W. Mounds 

 1 are covered with growth of small black oak. Two hundred 

 feet east of No. 12 is a straight mound 250feet long — course 

 N. E." 



The accompanying drawing (Fig. 13) is taken from a 

 field-sketch, made by Mr. Strong in his field-notes, and the 

 other (Fig. 14) is intended to be like it. The field-notes con- 

 tain the following: "Fifteen feet N. E. of No. 13 is another 

 exactly like it, situated in the same way. They lie 25 feet 

 S. E. of Black Eiver road." 



From the field-notes it is evident that these two mounds 

 (Figs. 13 and 14) are in the east half of section 24, township 

 8, range 6 west. 

 The next drawing (Fig. 15) is made from a field-sketch, which is 

 accompanied by the following : " S. W. ^ sec. 19, T. 8, E. 5 W. No. 15 

 lies about one mile beyond No. 13, on the north side of the road." 

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