REV. J. GASS EXPLORATIO^rS IX LOUISA COUNTY. 145 



Next, on Mr. Vibber's farm, at. the N. E. corner of the N. W. ^ 

 of Sic. 13, w;' opened four other mounds. 



The first was three feet high and thirty- feet in diameter. Here 

 we found nothing but a few human bones at the depth of three feet. 



The second, fifteen feet from the former, was two and a half feet 

 high and thirty feet across. Two and a half feet down we discov- 

 ered on 3 human arm bone and one leg bone. 



The third innund was three feet high and of oval form, fifteen by 

 thirty feet. At the depth of three feet were, two skeletons, imbed- 

 ded in the clay ; no relics. 



The fourth was two feet and a half high and twenty-five feet in di- 

 ameter. Nothing was found here except a few decayed bones. 



In addition to the ab(^ve explorations, Mr. Kallenberger has 

 opened in the s-ime group, at my request, six other mounds, but 

 without any valuable results. 



Other people, from Muscatine and elsewhere, have opened a great 

 many mounds in the same vicinity but, as far as T could learn, with 

 no better success. 



Not long previous to the investigations above referred to, Mr. 

 David Young and others opened two mounds on a projecting point 

 of the bluffs" on Mr. Godfrey s land, N. E. ^ N. W. i Sec. 24. In 

 these they found a finely-carved sandstone pipe, (No. 7061.) repre- 

 senting a bird, also a copper axe and a very large copper bead. The 

 pipe and bead are already in our museum, and the axe is promised 

 but not yet received. 



In November we made the third exploration of mounds in Grand- 

 view township, but on account of stormy weather only two mounds 

 could be opened, and nothing was obtained from them. These were 

 on Mr. Kallenberger's land, S. W. ^ Sec. '24. 



At my request and under my direction, Mr. F. Haas has explored 

 eight mounds on his father's farm, N. E. j Sec. 25, and obtained for our 

 museum one plain pipe of red pipestone, a few shell beads, an obsid- 

 ian ar.ow head and a number of flint implements. 



I have thus briefly described the exploration of seventy-five 

 mounds during a period of a little over one year, and as the result of 

 the wliole work we have secured four skulls, twelve pipes, four cop- 

 per axes, a number of C(jp])er and shell beads, and a considerable 

 numbi r of flint, stone and horn implements. This may seem a small 

 residt in comparison with the amount of labor required, but as the 

 value of mound-builders' relics is increasing every year, it seems 

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