9© DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. 



Louisa County — Continued. 



rently in parallel lines, the whole being in a plot twenty-five or 

 thirty rods in diameter. It is at the south of Muscatine slough. 

 From this group an earthwork or causeway extended west to an- 

 other row of mounds about forty rods distant. This earthwork 

 runs in a straight line, but it has a jog or break in it where is 

 found a depression in the ground about 80 feet in diameter. The 

 ends of these two lines are about a rod apart, but both walls fol- 

 low the same direction. 



Sec. 2./(N.-E. ^ N.-W. i^). Godfrey Farm; mounds opened 

 here at different times by Gass; ^3, 71 two, about 4 feet high — 



{a). At 4 feet a horizontally-placed skeleton, with the head 

 west; a small flint knife was obtained here. 



{b^. Twenty-four paces south of the preceding; at 2 feet 

 down was a bed of ashes i foot thick ; the clay above it was 

 burned ; in the ash-bed were several small, white stones, like un- 

 finished pipes, which crumbled ; they were apparently limestone. 

 Two other mounds yielded a sandstone bird pipe, a copper axe, 

 and a large copper bead. 



Sec. 24 (S.-E. }i N.-W. 14:). On the Schleicher Farm; Gass^3 

 opened two mounds. 



No. I. About 75 feet in diameter; 4 feet high; at 4 feet 

 depth were two leg-bones and fragments of pottery and flints. 



No. 2. Thirty-five feet south of last; 50 feet in diameter; 

 3^ feet high ; yielded a few bones. 



No. 3. On Godfrey Farm, thirty feet south of No. 10 ; 30 

 feet in diameter ; 3 feet high ; at 3 feet down were two skeletons. 



No. 4. Thirty-five feet north ot No. 2 (?); 30 feet in diam- 

 eter ; 2X \y2 feet deep the earth became a burned clay ; at i ^ 

 feet deeper it was a soft brick-like material ; below this was an ash- 

 bed of oval form, 4 feet by 5 Yz feet, 1 1 inches thick ; near the 

 centre of this bed was a small copper axe showing action of fire; 

 no bones. 



No. 5. Thirty-six feet north from last; 30 feet in diameter; 

 3 feet high ; at 4 feet depth were human bones, broken pottery, 

 flint implements. 



No. 6. Forty-six feet from the last; 30 feet in diameter; 3 

 feet high ; at 3 feet down a few bones. 



No. 7. Forty-five feet north-west, on Rothrock Farm; 100 



