556 MISCELLANEOUS PAPEES EELATING TO ANTHEOPOLOGY. 



Trails. — Thirty years ago there were three distinct trails riiuuing 

 across the country. One ran from Maquon, on Spoon Eiver, to Hender- 

 son Grove ; thence, in a northerly direction, to Galena, on the Mississippi. 

 Another from the mouth of Court Creek, on Spoon River, to the same 

 points. A third trail ran from Maquon north to strike the trail from 

 mouth of Court Creek to Henderson Grove. These two trails met in 

 township 11 north, range 3 east. Along these routes all the specimens 

 sent you were found. Maquon was an Indian settlement on Spoon 

 River. Here, within the memory of our oldest settlers, they had a vil- 

 lage, and lived from year to year. There is an old Indian cemetery at 

 this point and another at the mouth of Court Creek. Near the south 

 line of Knox County, half a mile west of Spoon River, there is a group 

 of three mounds, not yet examined, and half a mile further south, in 

 Fulton County, there is another group of three, none of which have been 

 explored. 



DESCRIPTION OF A GROUP OF MOUNDS IN BUREAU 

 COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 



By a. S. Tiffaky, of Davenport, Iowa. 



The group of eight mounds described below and represented in the 

 accompanying plan is situated near Bureau, in Bureau County, Illinois, 

 on the bottom lands of the Illinois River and Bureau Creek. 



The land on which they are located has been farmed about forty 

 years, and the smaller mounds have been considerably reduced. Num- 

 bers 1 to 3 are situated on a natural swell, and the diameters can be de- 

 termined only approximately. These three were explored by the writer 

 and Mr. Sale. 



Dimensions and distances of the mounds. 



A rectangular opening, 7 feet square, was made in mound No. 1. At 

 a depth of 15 inches a bed of ashes several inches in thickness was 

 reached, which extended in all directions beyond the opening. At a 

 depth of 5 feet a few bones, much decomposed, were found. They were 

 parts of two individuals. A small number of bone awls were lying near 

 them. 



A slight dip in the floor of the mound was observed in the northeast 



