66 DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. 



Clayton County — Continued. 



the above. There are at the latter place two mounds, circular, 

 25 feet in diameter and 4 feet high; a third lies seventy feet back 

 from these. 



Lewis ^3 gives description of a group of effigy mounds near 

 North McGregor, 500 feet above the river, on a dividing ridge 

 situated in S.-W. y^ Sec. 3, Twp. 95, R. 3 W. The surrounding 



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country is broken and rug- 



%. #■ B ged. The Yellow River 



A 



K t W lies to the north-west and 



% t ^ Bloody Run to the south- 



'^■^^mm„„„ M§ west. The group extends 



-^ ^K ♦» ♦, ^ '"n'm^ s^ a distance of about 2,000 



^ ^^ * ^ mals and three birds, with 



*% *^ A^^l^*«%. -Sj^ ^ 3 feet, and includes ten ani- 



.-^f ^%ii,., g two long embankments. 



%„}^" '^^"^^ The first embankment is 



^_ . 190 feet long, 18 feet wide. 



/OCc 'fr^ I >^ feet high; the second 



/ T is 138 feet long, 18 feet 



^^' 5* wide, and i^ feet high. 



The effigies vary from 79 to 109 feet in length and are from 2 to 

 3 feet high ; no two effigies are just alike, the variation being most 

 marked in the head ; all are tailless ; though the construction is 

 good the form and design are bad ; the birds are all different and 



are symmetrical, but the wings are unnaturally long. One 



mile south and east is one bird effigy. 



Thomas '74 lists three groups of mounds above McGregor. 

 These may be the same as above described. 



Near Sny Magill Lewis ^3 mentions a group of ninety-two 

 mounds. These are mostly round mounds and embankments, 

 but there are also two animals and two birds. A number of skel- 

 etons were found in one large tumulus in this group. The same 

 group is listed by Thomas. '74 



In an article by Clement L. Webster '9° a mound situated four 

 and one-half miles west of Guttenberg is described. The mound 

 is on the bank of the ravine of Miner's Creek, some 60 feet above 

 the stream; it was 10 feet long by 7 feet wide, and composed of 

 soft soil; evidently modern, it yielded a well-preserved skeleton, 

 with stone arrow-heads, a pestle, a catlinite pipe, etc. 



