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Louisa County — Continued. 



Sec. I J (S.-W. yl). Gass ^3 describes here three mounds, 

 which are numbered by him as a northward continuation of a 

 group in Sec. 24. They are one and one-half miles north of 

 those. 



No. 8. Three hundred yards from the edge of a bluff in the 

 centre of a number of smaller ones; it is 80 feet in diameter and 

 6 feet high; the upper covering is of mixed soil; at 6 feet were 

 three horizontally-placed skeletons, one with the head toward the 

 east, the others with head west; the skulls were badly decayed; 

 south of these were ashes and coals, with burned clay and flint 

 fragments ; no relics. 



JVo. g. On Gast farm, one-eighth mile south of No. 8, in 

 the X.-W. i^ N.-W. J;( Sec. 24. It measured about So feet in 

 diameter and 6 feet in height ; it was isolated, at two hundred 

 yards from the edge of the blutf ; at 6 feet down were ashes and 

 charcoal, ^^ also two arrow-heads. ^3 



No. 10 (N.-E. % N.-W. y^ Sec. 24). On the Godfrey Farm ; 

 two hundred yards from No. 9, at the edge of a bluff overlooking 

 the valley of the Mississippi; 25 feet in diameter; 4 feet high. 

 At I foot a mass of decayed bones forming a bed 5 or 6 feet 

 across and 3^^ feet thick; 71 also ^3 emitting a stench. 



Sec. 14 (S.-E. i/(). On the bluff facing and overlooking the 

 IVfississippi River, one-fourth mile back from the edge of the bluff, 

 Gass ^° describes two earth-walls from ravine to ravine; the south- 

 ern wall is 24 rods long; the northern one is 21 rods ; the south 

 wall is now 6 feet high, and the ditch on its north side is 20 feet 

 wide and 5 feet deep ; the north wall is 5 feet high, and on its 

 north side is a ditch 1 2 feet wide and 5 feet deep. The ravines 

 are steep-sided and are 100 feet or more deep; on the ravine 

 slope, near the top, at three rods south of the south wall, is a 

 circular excavation nearly 100 feet in diameter and 15 to 20 feet 

 deep, partly excavated, partly on down-side built up ; at the lower 

 end is a passage-way through the wall, of doubtful antiquity. At 

 the bottom of the ravine to the west are two springs, the north 

 one pure and cold, the south one sulphureous ; the area is over- 

 grown with large trees. 



This locality may be the one referred to by Stevenson. ^^^ He 

 speaks of a group of twent}-five or thirty mounds arranged appa- 



