96 Indian Mounds and Earthworks. 
count of these remains, or to furnish the slightest tradition re- 
specting the ancient possessors of the soil.” 
Having disposed of as much of the details in my possession, as 
appear_necessary in relation to the localities of animal s 
earthworks, I have little to add concerning the mounds and In- 
dian antiquities of other parts of this continent. Ample details 
respecting a great many of them may be found in well known 
works on these subjects, such as that of Dr. McCulloch,* and the 
Archzologia Americana. 
From these and other authorities it does appear, that the forms 
of these mounds elsewhere are materially different to those I have 
been describing in Wisconsin and to the north of it. 
The animal form does not prevail in the Indian monuments 
within the valley of the Ohio. No allusion is made by Colonel 
Long, in the narrative to his second expedition, to any but the 
ordinary circular tumuli, in the relative positions of which the 
editor observes, “ we could discover no order or plan.” On the 
banks of the Miami river, a group of one elliptical and four cit- 
cular mounds is described, and figured in plate 2, of the narrative. 
On the Fox river, of the Illinois, Colonel Long saw many 
mounds, counting twenty seven at one spot, arranged with a cer-, 
tain depron of regularity, “varying from one to four and a half 
feet in height, and from fifteen to twenty five feet in length. 
Their breadth is not proportionate to their length, as it seldom 
exceeds from six to eight feet ;’” other mounds are described of 
an oval form. — 
The square and pyramidal mounds occur most frequently in 
the south ; and Dr. McCulloch, who is good authority on the sub- 
ject of fadian antiquities, ohmerves,! “that there seems to be a ma- 
terial difference in the construction and position of the mounds 
in Georgia and Florida, from those of Ohio, Kentucky, &e.t 
Tumuli, in the form of truncated pyramids, also occur in the 
south. Dr. Kain has described a group of six possessing this form 
in East Tennessee. Their proportions are ten feet in height, 
by thirty or forty paces in diameter, in the base ; the whole group 
being enclosed by a ditch. 
Mounds, having an exact rectangular form, are described by 
travellers as existing in Tennessee. 
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