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are some five or six feet apart in the middle of the body and converge 

 toward either extremity. The neck is two feet wide; the head, five 

 feet. There are two stones representing eyes. The head is directed 

 to the north-west. The stones are deeply imbedded in the ground, 

 which is composed of sand and gravel and a light mould. After the 

 grass begins to grow they would not be noticed except on close in- 

 spection. 



The mounds a, b, and c are some ten feet in diameter and three feet 

 high, and are composed of boulders of various sizes u[) to loo pounds 



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or more in weight. Mound c had been disturbed, about half of the 

 north side being torn away — evidently by some one exploring its con- 

 tents. The others seemed to be undisturbed. Old grass was still 

 clinging to the scanty soil between the stones. The small mound, d, 

 similarly constructed, was not more than half the dimensions of the 

 larger -ones. There was no appearance of recent handling about these 

 stones, no ashes visible, and the stones forming the serpent being 



