(B.) 



Extract from Mr. Owen's Report to Congress. 



*' EARTHWORK ANTIQUITIES IN WISCONSIN TERRITORY. 



'' I present this subject, not as a discovery, but merely to 

 add such evidence to the discoveries and pubhcations of otliers 

 as seem, from the doubts I have heard so repeatedly expressed, 

 to be necessary to convince the majority of readers of their 

 correctness. In the 34th volume of ' Silliman's Journal,' is 

 a communication from Richard C. Taylor, Esq., on the sub- 

 ject of these idenical works, in which he describes them as 

 being ' in the form of animal effigies.' Tlie figures given by 

 Mr. Taylor arc so unlike any ancient tumuli in other parts of 

 the country, that I had, ever since noticing them, felt a strong 

 desire to examine the originals. On entering Wisconsin, I 

 was so engaged in other pursuits, that 1 had forgotten the 

 ' effigies,' until, upon examining the ' sandstone blulfs,' eight 

 miles east of the Blue Mounds, I literally stumbled over one 

 of ihem, overgrown with the rank prairie grass. I was at 

 once convinced of the correctness of Mr. Taylor's representa- 

 lions, and not a little astonislied that some well-informed per- 



