274 APPENDIX, 



" Observations. — Ears distinctly separated. Two trees, 

 sixteen inches in diameter, growing in the nose. Ground 

 sloping gently towards the feet. Both the fore and hind 

 legs curved a little back\vards. The tail a little hollowed on 

 the upper side. Height, or relief of the figure above the 

 natural surface, about three feet ; and the back somewhat 

 steeper than the belly. Bearing of hip to shoulder N. SS*^ 

 W. 



" It will be seen, by examining the above notes, that they 

 determine twenty-five points in the circumference of the 

 figure ; and that the connecting of these points by lines, and 

 thus completing the outline, permits no exercise of imagina- 

 tion. The figure from the earth is simply transferred to the 

 paper, on a scale of the one hundred and twentieth part, in 

 linear dimensions. Seven other figures were surveyed with 

 the same degree of particularity, and the distances between 

 them and the relative positions of the same group accurately 

 noted. 



" The ' military road' from Prairie du Chien to the Four 

 Lakes, after crossing the Wisconsin River, and ascending a 

 small tributary, occupies the height or dividing ridge between 

 the waters of the Wisconsin on one side, and those of Rock 

 River and some smaller streams on the other, for the distance 

 of eighty or one hundred miles, occasionally descending into 

 a moderate valley, and crossing a small rivulet, a head branch 

 of some of the incipient streams. Most of the route is on a 

 high open prairie. From the Blue Mounds eastward to the 

 Four Lakes, the country abounds with the earthwork antiqui- 

 ties, of the origin of which the present aborigines are as 

 ignorant as ourselves. About seven or eight miles eastward 

 from the Blue Mounds, the road descends into the valley of 

 a head branch of Sugar River, a tributary of Rock River ; 



