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" Along the space of twenty miles from this position," observes Mr. R. S. 

 Taylor, " extending to the Four Lakes eastward, similar monuments, intermixed 

 ^ith plain tumuli, are seen at almost every mile, in the lowest situations as well 

 & crowning the highest swells of the prairies ; and they are still more numerous 

 all around those beautiful but almost unknown lakes. It would be a ceaseless 

 repetition of similar forms to figure many of these." 



PLATE XLL 



ANCIENT WORKS, DADE COUNTY, WISCONSIN. 



•Number I. — This group is figured both by Mr. R. C. Taylor and Prof. Locke, 

 whose plans agree with great exactness. It occurs ten miles west of Madison, Dade 

 county, Wisconsin. The old Indian trail, now the military road, runs between the 

 nose of one animal and the tail of the other. They lie on the borders of an undu- 

 lating prairie, at the edge of the woodland, upon a gentle slope. A short distance 

 (five hundred or six hundred feet) to the west of them is a natural swell of ground, 

 with an artificial circular tumulus on the top of it, overlooking the two figures. 

 No. 3 on the same Plate illustrates the method of survey adopted by Prof Locke, 

 and also gives an enlarged plan of the more perfect figure of the group.* These 

 efligies are the favorite resort of badgers, which, finding them raised and dry, have 

 selected them for their burrows. Mr. Taylor suggests that these figures were 

 intended to represent the fox. Prof Locke, on the other hand, remarks that 

 "they have an expression of agility and fleetness, and may have been intended to 

 represent the cougar or American tiger, an animal still existing in that region." 



Number 2. — This group of works closely resembles that last described. One of 

 the effigies (C) was opened by Prof Locke. " It was composed of sand without 

 any change to mark the original surface, although it is now overgrown with grass 

 and covered with a thin black mould. The whole of the descent near the bottom 

 of which the figure lies, has evidently been formed from the disintegration of the 

 sandstone blufl^ contiguous ; and at the time of the formation of this tumulus, it 

 was most probably destitute of loam at this point, as it now is at a point nearer 



* The measurements of this figure are given by Prof. Locke as follows, in feet and inches. Triangles : 

 Eye to shoulder, 23 feet ; shoulder to foot, 29,4 ; fore foot to eye, 37,8 ; eye to nose, 20,4 ; nose to shoulder. 

 35.10 ; eye to point half way between the ears, 11,0 ; shoulder to same point, 24,10 ; shoulder to hip, 

 38,4 : fore foot to hip, 57,0; shoulder to hind foot, 47,8 ; hind foot to hip, 28,10 ; hip to tip of tail, 38 ; 

 hind foot to tip of tail, 41,6. Diainelfm : Of neck, 13; fore leg, 11 ; body, 14,7; hind leg, 9,9; tail, 8. 

 DUlanres : Eye to front, 7,6; ear to ear, 14; shoulder to armpit, 9,9; .shoulder to back. 8.4; hip to 

 rump. 7 ; hip to flank. 9.7 : hip to inserfinn of tnil. 7,6: lengrth of tliroat. 12 feet. 



