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Dubuque County — Continued. 



described. He says that the group is located fifty feet above the 

 Lake, and that it contains about seventy mounds, regularly ar- 

 ranged in straight or slightly-curving parallel lines. All but the 

 three largest are circular; the smaller ones measure about 20 feet 

 in diameter and 2 to 2^^ feet in height; they average about 15 

 paces apart from centre to centre; they are composed of ordinary 



soil. A few rods north and east from the group fragments 



of pottery and several flint arrow-heads were found. -The 



same observer remarks that many mounds have been destroyed 



in building the city of Dubuque. Another author mentions 



a cairn near the Lake Peosta group. 



McGee 94 figures a group of mounds located in the S.-E. ^ 

 N.-E. }( Sec. 4, Twp. 88 N., R. i W. These are about three 

 miles north-east of Farley. There are three animal mounds and 



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Fig. 7. 



three long mounds in the group (Fig. 7). A mile west of this 



group, on the same elevation, is a large animal effigy. Two 



miles east, on the end of the same ridge, are two embankments, 

 each about 40 yards long. A great system of mounds exists 



