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The fifth mound was forty-six feet fiom the fourth ; was three 

 feet high and thirty feet across. Three feet from the surface T 

 found a few bones, but Tiothing more. 



The sixth mound, forty-five feet northwest from the fifth and on 

 Mr. Rockroth's land, is six feet high and one hundred feet in diam- 

 eter. On the surface of this one the rotten stump of an oak tree, 

 two and a half feet in diameter, is standing. We made an excava- 

 tion eight by thirteen feet. About two feet down we found 

 the skeletons of three Indians, which were very much decayed. All 

 the earth six feet down to the natural soil, was a mixed clay and 

 black soil, containing no bones. A farther excavation in a north and 

 south direction revealed two skeletons on tlie south side, one a male 

 and the other a female, the former having the head westward, and the 

 latter eastward, the feet meeting at the center. No other relics were 

 found here. 



We next explored two other mounds, standing rather apart from 

 the rest, on land belonging to Mr. Schleicher, S. E. ^ N. W. ^ Sec. 24. 

 One of these was four feet high and about seventy-five feet in di- 

 ameter, and at the depth of four feet were found two human leg 

 bones and some fragments of pottery and flints. The other, about 

 thirty-five feet south, three and a half by fifty feet, contained only 

 a few bones. 



At the same time we explored three other moiuids a short dis- 

 tance from those above described. The first of these, on Mr. Gast's 

 farm, N. W. ^ N. W. ^ Sec. 24, is a single mound, six feet in height 

 and 100 feet in diameter. An excavation was made, ten feet in di- 

 ameter and six feet deep, but nothing was found except two arrow- 

 heads. The excavation was then extended in different directions 

 with the same result. 



The next mound, on Mr. Godfrey's land, N. E. i N. W. | Sec. 24, 

 is four and a half feet high and forty-five feet across. Three and a 

 half feet below the surface we discovered a whole layer of human 

 bones, but in such confusion that the positions of the several skele- 

 tons could not be ascertained. A singular circumstance in connec- 

 tion with this, and the only such instance I have ever known, was a 

 smell of decay, which was almost unendurabl«^ No relics were 

 found. 



The third mound is thirty feet south of the last described, and is 

 three feet high and thirty feet in diameter. At the depth of three 

 feet we found the remains of two skeletons and nothing more. 



