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Clayton County — Continued. 



The same author mentions a circular, round-topped mound, 

 24 feet in diameter and 33^ feet high, situated five or six miles 

 south-east of Garnavillo, on the brow of a bluff 260 feet above 

 Buck Creek, near its junction with the Mississippi. At 2^^ feet 

 below the original surface, at the center of the mound, was a 

 well-preserved skeleton, extended, with head to the north. The 

 front part of the skull was crushed. No relics were found. The 

 soil was soft and the mounds appeared to be modern. Lewis ^3 

 says mounds and embankments, singly or in groups, are found at 

 intervals between Cuttenberg and Yellow River. 



Webster, '^o quoting Knapp, mentions many circular and long 

 mounds in and near Guttenherg. He considers most or all of 

 them as recent. Some, he says, are 124 feet long and contain 

 bones. One, opened by Knapp, was circular, 16 feet in diameter, 

 3 to 4 feet high; it contained, at centre and 2 feet below the 

 original surface, a skeleton ; at each side of the head was a large 

 silver ornament, circular, and 2 inclies in diameter; flint arrow- 

 points were also found; the mound was composed of soft, moist 

 soil. 



The same author describes the making of arrow-heads by a 

 band of Pottawatomies on Tjodve-Mile Island, in the Mississippi 

 River, near Guttenberg. A notch six inches deep cut in a tree- 

 trunk and the leg bone of a deer were 

 the elements in the apparatus, with which 

 the flints were chipped by pressure. 



Thomas '74- 221 mentions an effigy 

 mound on a bluff overlooking the Turkey 

 River, near Elkport, about ten miles west 

 of the Mississippi River. Perhaps an ot- 

 ter; length, 150 feet; greatest height, 5 

 feet. 



Webster '9° describes a stone grave 

 near Buena Vista, three or four miles west 

 of the Mississippi River, on the summit of a high hill. A rude 

 box of large stone slabs contained a skeleton extended at length, 

 head to the north, with arrow-points, axes, and other stone im- 

 plements. 



Fig. 6. 



