260 MOUND-BUILDEES IN ILLINOIS. 



feet shape; butthe largest one in this section is in Dr. Everett's collection. 

 It weighs one ounce over 15 pounds ; is of dark color ; the shape is artis- 

 tic; the external boundary lines are all graceful curves. Only a giant 

 could have vfielded it. 



Among these relics of stone the writer has one of unusual shape and 

 appearance; it is somewhat like the section of a circle ; thick along the 

 straight edge; and tapering from the top to the circular edge. It was 

 found in a mound, near the north line of the State. 



Gorgets, or parallelogram -shaped stones, with two holes drilled through 

 them, are often picked up. The finest one in the writer's collection is 

 of the red-pipe-stoue material. A small one in Dr. Everett's collection 

 has but one hole through the end. 



Weapons of the size and shape of a goose-egg, with narrow creases 

 round the middle, clubs and hammers undoubtedly, are not rare. In 

 Dr. Everett's collection is a large plummet-shaped imf)lement, with a 

 sort of neck on the smaller end. As a slung-shot it would have proved 

 a formidable weapon. 



A very perfect-shaped plummet, made from what seems to be hema- 

 tite iron ore is in the writer's cabinet. It lacks the usual crease around 

 the small end. One discoidal stone, of spotted greenstone, was i^icked 

 up in this region, the only one found, so far as I know. 



A flint hoe and flint chisel or gouge, from the collection of Dr. J. S. Lowe, 

 in Hanover, are objects of great interest. 



Pottery. — Some very perfect specimens of pottery have been found and 

 preserved. The writer has three different styles in his cabinet. Some 

 of the fragments are large enough to show the graceful curves of the 

 vessels before they were broken. The specimens taken from the mounds 

 are of more graceful shape, better and smoother material, and superior 

 hardness, to the later and ruder work of the Indians. 



Beads. — Several strings of beads have been taken from the Hanover 

 mounds. These are circular and flat, with a bole in the center ; and 

 some of them are artistic in shape. Hanover is the only place where 

 they have been found in this locality, so far as the writer knows. 



ANTIQUITIES OF MASOX COIXTY, ILLINOIS. 



By J. CocHKANE, of Havana, III. 



There are five interesting mounds in this vicinity, varying in height 

 from 20 to 40 feet. The two highest are built adjoining each other on 

 the bank of the Illinois Eiver, two others are three miles below them, 

 also on the east bank of the Illinois Eiver, and about ten rods apart : 

 the fifth one is on the bluffs of Illinois Eiver bottoms, west side, and 

 about six miles distant, but in full view of the former ones. 



One is of gravelly soil (none of which exists in j)roximity to it) and 

 the others of loam. No excavations are perceptible in the vicinity 



