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eastern series consists of two earthworks, respectively 40 and 50 

 yards long, separated by an interval of 10 yards, and running S. 26^ 

 W. ; these embankments begin 36 yards from the end of the line of 

 mounds ; from its southern end, — W. 18 yards and S. 54 yards, — 

 begins another line of mounds, six in number, with the same 

 course; from the southernmost of these is another series of six 

 extending to the west; starting at the north-east corner of the 

 series is a line of eleven mounds running in a straight line north- 

 east. These are round and symmetrical, 4 feet high and 30 feet 

 in diameter. 



Dubuque County. 



Near Peru, according to Thomas, '73. 221 jg a group of mounds 

 upon a dry sandy bench or terrace, 20 feet above a bayou making 

 out from the Mississippi River. The mounds are mostly small 

 and circular; at the north end are four mounds from 40 to no 

 feet long and from ii4 to 4 feet high; here also is an excavation 

 some 30 feet in diameter and 6 feet deep ; scattered circular earth- 

 rings from 12 to 30 feet in diameter and i foot to 2 feet high 



occur. The inner part of these mounds is of hard, compact 



earth or clay. They yield detached parts of human skeletons. 

 Thus in one may be a skull, in another a leg, arm, or some other 

 part; four or five adjacent mounds might furnish a whole set of 

 bones. Some of the bones are charred and much decayed. 



At Eagle Point, three miles above Dubuque, is a group of 

 mounds '73. 221 on a bluff fifty feet above high-water mark. There 

 are about seventy mounds in the group, all but two of which are 

 small and conical ; two are oblong. About eleven of the small 

 mounds were opened, and nothing but charcoal, stone chips, and 



potsherds were found. In one long mound, just west of the 



group, were tvo much decayed skeletons ; near the breast of one 

 was a gorget of blue stone and five rude stone scrapers ; with the 



other were found thirty-one fresh-water pearls. An oblong 



and a circular mound near the extreme point of the bluff were 

 opened ; they presented a central core of clay and ashes, very 

 hard but crumbling when broken out, and traversed by flattened 

 horizontal cavities lined with a felt-like substance. 



Woodman 203 speaks of mounds in the north part of Dubuque, 

 adjacent to Lake Peosta. These may be the same as those just 



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