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j^reasy soot, which smutted one's hand like lamp smol^e. This was 

 found about 3 feet below the surface. Many such fragments have been, 

 and some can still be, found on the field before spoken of. There was 

 no indication of any decayed substance anywhere to be detected, nor of 

 any action of fire, except on some of the limestones, which had evi- 

 dently occurred beibre they were placed in the mound. The earth in 

 this mound appears to have been taken from a portion of the field about 

 IGO yards distant. 



Southeast of the house of Mr. Eobert M. Spalding,. in the southeast 

 quarter section 30, township 5G, range 6, about 1 mile from the left bank 

 of the river is a row of mounds, the western one of which was composed 

 of stone of a peculiar color, only found in the vicinity on the right bank 

 of the river at the distance of nearly 1 mile. 



On the southeast quarter section 35, township 56, range 6, we opened 

 a mound, one of several on the top of the ridge. (Jn the south side of 

 it the bed stone had been formed into a shallow trough. On removing 

 the flat stones which covered this, and which showed no action of* fire, 

 we found a bed of charcoal several inches thick, both animal and vege- 

 table, and the limestone which composed it was burned completely 

 through. Some fragments of a human femur were found in a calcined 

 state. There was no indication of fire elsewhere in the mound, but there 

 were the partial remains of several skeletons, lying in two layers, with 

 stone and earth between them. The implements marked with Mr. Spald- 

 ing's initials were found in his vicinity, and are sent by him. 



On the west half of the southwest quarter section 4, township 55, range 

 G west, owned by Mr. Utterback, a row of mounds, four in number, is found, 

 commencing on the brow of the bluff and extending back in nearly a 

 westerly direction, in a slight curve for about 250 yards, at irregular dis- 

 tances. The eastern one is mnch the largest. The others are all in a 

 field which has been cultivated for thirty years. One was examined and 

 opened. Fragments of human bones were found on the surface, thrown 

 up by the plow. On the north and south sides single skeletons were 

 found, laid at length east and west, and between the two a confused mass 

 of bones, as though a number of bodies had been thrown together indis- 

 criminately. The diameter of this mound was about 30 feet, its height 

 about 2i feet above the general surface. It was composed of earth and 

 stones. 



On the nortlieast corner of section 8, township 55, range G west, 

 owned now by W. Keithley, a mound was opened by one of the present 

 writers (G. L. 11.) in 1S53. It was on the brow of the bluff, about 50 feet 

 in base diameter, and at the center 5 to G feet high, and made wholly of 

 stone; near the n)iddle lay a single skeleton, indicating a i>erson feet 

 4 inches in height. It was extended at full length, vrith head to the 

 west^ A dry wall was laid up around the remains 1 J feet high, and this 

 covered with large flat stone, on which the remainder were thrown in- 

 discriminately. 



