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Indians, numerons traces of whom may still be seen, but the two places 

 to which this article refers seem to have an earlier date. The sketch 

 marked No. 1 is a point in the southeast corner of the southwest quar- 

 ter section 8, township 73 north, range 43 west of the fifth principal 

 meridian, and on the lands now owned and cultivated by Mr. O. E. 

 Allis. Topographically considered it is located on a spur of the bluffs 



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which form the eastern boundary of the great Missouri flood plain, and 

 is perhaps 50 feet above the level of the plain. The remains at present 

 consist of a number of circular depressions on the southwestern slope, 

 but near the summit of the aforesaid point of bluff". To the south 

 about 400 feet there is at present a deep ravine, from which flows an 

 excellent spring of water, while east and north the range of bluff's rise 

 to a height of 250 feet above the plain. The depressions are from 20 to 

 30 feet in diameter, of circular form, and at present are from 1 J to 2 feet 

 deep, but as the ground has been in cultivation for a number of years, 

 it is probable that they have been filled up considerably. 



The ground on the site and for some distance around these hollows 



is strewn with small chips of stone and fragments of pottery, together 



with occasional tools of various kinds, such as arrow-heads, knives, «&c. 



Also a number of pieces of dififerent-cotored paints and occasional oma- 



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