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hundred yards to the north may formerly have given rise to a spring 

 at this point. The river would appear to have been too far below 

 and too distant to have served as a regular water supply. 



According to Dr. Gilmore the most northerly pit at this site (house 

 i) had been partially opened by Dr. Fred H. Sterns some time around 



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Fig. 13. — Sketch map of Rock Bluffs district, Cass County. 



191 5. Sterns does not mention the site in his complete manuscript 

 (1915 a), possibly because the excavation was not finished. On our 

 first day at the site, April 12, 1930, some time was spent in an attempt 

 to excavate that portion which Dr. Gilmore thought had been un- 

 touched in the former work. 



