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on Mr. P. Haas' farm, S. W. ^ of N. E. ^ of Section 25, about fifty 

 yards west, of the first (reported by Mr. Blunier), and in the second 

 row of this group, extending north and south, approximately parallel 

 with the edge of the bluff, the mounds being arranged in several 

 somewhat irregular rows, all running in the same direction. This 

 mound was about fifteen feet in diameter and one and a half in 

 height, and composed of a mixture of the adjacent common soils to 

 the depth of three feet, where the natural undisturbed yellow clay 

 was reached. On the bottom were some remains of a human skele- 

 ton, all much decayed. A few splinters of flint were also found. 



Mound No. 3 is situated close to the edge of the bluff, in the first 

 row, about fifty yards southward from the first one. Its diameter 

 was about twenty feet, height two fest. At two feet from the sur- 

 face we discovered an excavation into the natural soil, extending 

 downward two feet farther, and one and a half in diameter, entirely 

 filled with ashes and coals. No relics nor bones were found. 



Mound No. 4 is fift}^ yards south of the third one, twenty-five feet 

 in diameter and three in height. Here, as in No. 2, we met with the 

 same kind of soil, three feet in depth, but this stratum was resting 

 upon a layer of white clay, as hard as cement, eight inches thick 

 down to the natm-al undisturbed yellow clay. On the south side this 

 layer sloped a little and grew thicker in that direction, and here were 

 the remains of two skeletons, lying in a horizontal position and ex- 

 tended northwest and southeast, imbedded in this clay. Only por- 

 tions of the larger bones were preserved. The skulls rested on a 

 large stone. Some fragments of arrow heads were the only relics 

 found. 



Mound No. 5 — ^about ten yards west of No. 4, and in the second 

 row — is twenty-five feet in diameter, and three and a half in height. 

 From the surface two and a half feet down, it is composed of a mixed 

 soil like Nos. 2 and 4, resting, as in the latter, on a layer of white 

 clay, from eleven to fifteen inches thick. Under this layer, Init rather 

 at one side, we found a small quantity of ashes and coals, and in the 

 center, in an excavation two feet across and two and a half deep, 

 were the remains of a skeleton, in a sitting position. No relics here. 



Mound No. G, nin > yards northward from No. 5, and also in 

 the second row, is twenty feet in diameter and two and a half in 

 height. It consists of a mixture of the common soil resting on the 

 natural hard clay. No relics were to be found, and only a few frag- 

 ments of decayed bones. 



