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Mills County — Continued. 



pottery vessel, entire but broken, found at 6 feet do\vn in loess at 

 Glen^vood (Fig. 18). It is of dark gray clay tempered with 



Fig. 18. 



micaceous quartz. A i^w bits of burned clay and pottery were 

 found later at the same place. 



Proudfit describes scrapers of flint (pink and white) well worn 

 by use or weather, found by him at foot of bluff, one mile above 

 the mouth of Indian Hollow, in a vertical face of exposure, 6 feet 

 below the surface. 



Remains of Elephas americanus have been found in the loess 

 of Mills County at a railroad cut (C, B. & Q.) two miles south 

 of Glenwood and at Malvern, nine miles east of Glenwood. 



This author believes that great physical changes have occurred 



in the region since occupied by man. He also mentions an 



ancient trail running for many miles along the west crest of the 

 bluff which is, at times, worn deeply into the surface. 



Muscatine County. 



Pine Creek, {a). Group of six mounds, on a high ridge, two 

 miles above Pine Creek. Lindley ^^ opened one composed of 

 yellow clay ; in it were found river shells and charcoal, human 

 skeletons lying east and west, and forty-one beads. 



(l>). On slope of same ridge a group of mounds forming an 

 irregular circle. One opened was about 15 feet high and 100 feet 



