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There are numerous Indian cemeteries along- the Sangamon River. 



A group known as the " Ross Mounds," iu the SE, ^ Sec. 5, in Cooper 

 Township, on the banks of the Sangamon. 



" Olcott Mounds," on the NW. ri Sec. 20, at the junction of Horse 

 Creek and South Fork, in Rochester Township. Skeleton found iu one. 



"Dawson Mouuds," on the NE. ^ Sec. 4, on the east bank of the 

 South Fork in Rochester Township. 



" McClernand Mounds," on SE. ^ Sec. 33, Clear Lake Township. 



Brief descriptioa with figures, b}' James Wickersham, Sm. Rep., 1883, pp. 826- 

 832. 



A group of twenty-five mounds on the farm of Benjamin F. Cald- 

 well, on Lick Creek, in Chatham Township. 



Groups of mounds on Can trail and Richland Creeks, in the north 

 part of the county, also on the east shore of Clear Lake. 



Mentioned by James Wickersliam, Sm. Rep., 1883, p. 834. 



Schuyler County. 



A. Foster reports mouuds in this county, but mentions no particular 

 locality. 



Sm. Rep., 1879, p. 435. 



Deposits of Stone' celts at Bluft' City. 



Reported by .J. F. Snyder, Sm. Rep., 1876, p. 434. 



Deposit of horustone disks at Fredericksville. 



J. F. Snyder, Sm. Rep., 1876, p. 437. 



Scott County. 



Mound group and scattering mounds in and around Naples, and an 

 old Indian graveyard near by. Skeletons, bird and animal shaped 

 pipes, copper axes, pieces of cloth, awls, disks, arrow points, pottery, 

 etc., found. 



Explored; figured and described by J. G. Henderson, Sm. Rep., 1882, pp. 686- 

 721, and 1880, p. 444. Description quoted in " Burial mounds of the north- 

 ern section," j). .39. 



Stark County. 



Mounds in Spoon Eiver Valley ; one at Toulon and one in West 

 Jersey Township. 



Mentioned, and diagram given by T. M. Shellenberger, Sm. Rep., 1881, pp. 552, 

 553. 



St. Clair County. 



Mound 3 miles northeast of Lebanon, near the western border of 

 Lo(»king Glass Prairie, in which was fouud a deposit of flint spades. 



Described by J. F. Snyder, Sm. Rep., 1876, p. 434. 



Mound on the bluff almost directly east of the great Cahokia Mound, 

 and close to the Madison County line. 



Exca^^ation and graves (the latter on the top of the bluff) in the 

 vicinity of the great Cahokia Mound. 

 Mounds and deposit of flint implements in East St. Louis. 



Described and figured by Dr. Charles Ran, Sm. Rep., 1863, ))i». 401-407. Re- 

 ferred to by J, F. Snyder, Sm. Rep., 1876, p. 434. Noticed iu Report. 



