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and one-half feet deep, filled with red ochre mixed with pieces of 

 white clay, instead of skeletons. About half a bushel of the paint 

 was in this grave. No other relics and no bones were discovered. 



[In the latter part of July last, a party from the Academy, con- 

 sisting of Messrs. W. P. Hall, C. E. Harrison, George R. Putnam, 

 W. H. Pratt and John Graham, visited the same locality and made 

 some additional ex})lorations, but found very few relics. 



They opened the fifth, eighth, and ninth mounds of the group of 

 eleven above described, and a few others in that vicinity. 



Jn the fifth was found some broken pottery, of a light color, and 

 very plain. 



In the ninth was a pretty well preserved skull, and a quantity of 

 other bones, among which was a lower jaw from which all the teeth 

 had been long lost during life, and the jaw was reduced to remarka- 

 bly small dimensions in depth and thickness. Some fragments of 

 horn, and a piece of galena were also found here. 



In the eighth nothing was found, and the other mounds opened at 

 the same time also failed to afford anything of value or interest, be- 

 yond a few fragments of human bones.] 



Mounds ill Louisa Co., Iowa. 



In June last I explored a number of mounds in Grandview Town- 

 ship, in the same region where, a year ago, my labors had l)een quite 

 successful; but this time without results. 



In Section 11, on Mr. Wagner's farm, is a group of thirty-six 

 mounds. A number of these have been examined heretofore. I oj)- 

 ened seven of the largest; two of them were six feet high, the other 

 five only about three feet. In the first one I found, six feet below 

 the surface, a bed of ashes containing a few fragments of pottery 

 and two implements of trap rock. 



The other large mound, the largest of the group, had been for- 

 merly hastily explored. I enlarged the excavation at the top of the 

 mound and worked down to the natural earth without finding anv- 

 thing; but, widening the 0])ening on all sides, I found on the east 

 side, six feet down, a large limestone with a few pieces of potterv 

 lying on the toj) of it, together with an arrow-head and a clay figure 

 of the human head, about an inch in diameter and burned. This is 

 in our Museum. 



Opposite this, in the west side, I found another limestone of about 



