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DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. 



Allamakee County — Continued. 



The other two furnaces were not covered by mounds, and were 

 outside the circle about eighty or ninety paces from its north- 

 western part. 



The caves below New Albin in the bluffs of the Mississippi 

 River are mentioned by Thomas '74, Mallery 9i, and carefully 

 described by Lewis *^^. No. i is above Kain' s Station, in N.-E. y^ 

 Sec. 26, Twp. 100, R. 4 W. A rock ledge extends for 150 yards 



From the Annual t jclopa^J a. > opy.-.ght, 189U, by D. Appleton & Co. 



Fig. 2. 



along a slough, rising to a height of 25 feet above the water. 

 The cave has been used as a home, and fragments of burnt bones, 

 potsherds, etc., are dug up in the floor. Here are pictographs. 

 One represents a human head with horns or feathers (Fig. i). In 

 fissures and shelters in the same ledge are other representations of 

 hands, feet, men, bird-claws, etc. No. 2, in the N.-E. ^ Sec. 18, 

 Twp. 99, R. 3 W., is a small cave in a ledge of rock 200 feet above 



