34 Ancient Remains, Animal Mounds, fyc. in Wisconsin. 



drawing. Bearings, N. 45° W 



m 



the legs projecting southwestwardly ; general elevation, eighteen 



inches. 



Fig. 5 is a sketch of the outlines of a curious animal-formed 

 embankment, which lies adjacent to the road, in the vicinity of 

 fig. 8 of Plate VI. The form of this structure is very perfect 

 and well proportioned ; its elevation is about three feet, being 

 highest about the middle and toward the back ; its length from 

 one extreme to the other is seventy-nine feet, and in width, over 

 the middle, twenty-four feet. Bearings, east and west ; the head 



to the westward, and legs projecting southward. Throughout 



this region embankments of this form are very numerous, some 

 of which have two parallel projections from the back of the head, 

 while in the present one they seem to be so blended as to repre- 

 sent but one. There is, I believe, in zoological history, no anal- 

 ogy to this figure. 



Fig. 6, situated upon and near the east line of section thirty- 

 five, to the eastward and within a mile of fig. 1, Plate VI, rep- 

 resents a human figure having two heads ! which gracefully re- 

 cline over the shoulders. This singular figure, so unlike the other 

 works of similar form which have come under my notice, is the 

 most perfect that I have seen ; the arms, however, are dispropor- 

 tioned, being much too long ; their full length in the drawing, 

 for want of room, I have not delineated ; all the whole parts are 

 gracefully rounded ; the stomach and breast are corpulent ; and the 

 entire structure seems to have retained, as I conceive, its original 

 form through all the dilapidations of time. The perfection of 

 this truly singular and interesting specimen of ancient earth- 

 works, is convincing evidence that the ancient inhabitants of this 

 region were not as ignorant of the arts as we have reason to be- 

 lieve the present race of Indians are ; their works, however, prove 

 that they possessed industrious habits, even if their labors had 

 been bestowed upon objects of no apparent utility. The dimen- 

 sions of this figure are as follows : widths, from one arm-pit, 

 over the breast, to the other, twenty-five feet ; over the arms, at 

 shoulders, twelve, and tapering to four feet ; over the hips, twenty 

 feet ; over the thighs, near the trunk, eight, and tapering to five 

 feet ; over the figure, above the shoulders, fifteen feet ; over each 



neck eight, and over the heads ten feet : lengths of body, fifty 





