124 davenport academy of natural sciences. 



Warren County. 



Morgan '7+. 214 mentions a mound in this county which con- 

 tained a great number of skeletons. 



Webster County. 



Aldrich ' mentions several mounds on the Des Moines River, 

 six or eight miles above Ft. Dodge. In one an arched structure 

 was found. 



Ft. Dodge. — Fulton 59 mentions at this locality mounds and 

 an embankment, with gateways and openings, enclosing many 

 acres. Williams '97 mentions excavations which yielded parts of 

 thigh-bones, imperfect skulls, teeth, coals, pieces of burned wood, 

 etc. He inclines to the belief that they are house sites. 



The latter author also mentions mounds at forks of Boone River. 



Woodbury County. 



Fulton 59 states that a mound in this county, measuring 65 feet 

 by 100 feet, contained seventeen skeletons, one sitting, the rest 

 lying feet to feet in two rows; at the head of the rows was an 



earthen vessel. ^ Skeletons and relics were found in a mound 



at Sioux City. 207 



Wright County. 



One mile 'north-east of Clarion were twenty pits in an ellip- 

 tical form, within an area of one acre ; the pits were 3 feet by 10 

 feet and from 2 to 3 feet deep and Avere spaced ; an opening oc- 

 curred in their arrangement on the south-east ; many animal 

 bones were found. (Fulton. 59) 



