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A fort of tbe circular or elliptical kind, with an embankment 2 or 3 

 feet high iu Spriugwells Township, on the north bank of the Detroit 

 Eivxr. It incloses about an acre, and is surrounded by a swamp. 

 Parallel embankments, within a few feet of each other, approach it on 

 the east side crossing the swamp. 



Gazetteer of the State of Michigan, by John T. Blois (1838-1840). 



The Great Mound of liiver Eouge, on the eastern bank of the Eouge 

 River, about 4 miles from Detroit. 



Partial description and map by Henry Gillman, Sin. Rep., 1873, pp. 364, 365., 

 Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sol., vol. 24 (1875), pp. 316-322; vol. 25 (187G), p. 

 324 aud vol. 26 (1877), pp. 336, 337. Isaac Melloy's History Baptist Indian 

 Missions (1840), p. 366. 



Four mounds in Spriugwells Township, just below Detroit. One of 

 them still remains inside the grounds of Fort Wayne. The second was 

 on property now occuped by the copper smelting works, and the third 

 lay between the other two. They were from 30 to 70 feet in diameter, 

 varying from 3 to 10 feet in height. Two parallel embankments led to 

 them from the east. One of these mounds contained, besides Indian 

 relics, an iron vessel. 



Silas Farmer, History of Detroit aud Michigan (ldiS4), p. 321. 



MINNESOTA. 



Becker County. 



A group of two mounds near Cormorant Lake on the southwest. 



Reported by T. H. Thorn, Sm. Rep., 1880, p. 447. 



Big Stone County. 



Mounds along the Big Stone Lake. 



Mentioned by T. H. Lewis, Amer. Antiq., vol. 8 (^1886), p. 370. 

 Two circular mounds at Big Stone City. 

 Two or three others, three quarters of a mile south. 



Reported in Geol. Minn., vol. 1 (1872-1882), p. 631. 



Cass or Itasca County. 



Mounds at White Oak Point on the Mississippi Kiver, T. 144, N., 

 or on east bank in Itasca County T. 56 N. 



Mentioned l)y George R. Stuntz, Proc. Minn. Acad. Sci., vol. 3 (1889), p. 82. 



Chippewa County. 



"Heyokatee," large mound (supposed to be natural) situated near 

 the Chippewa Kiver, on the road from Black Oak Lake to Lac-(iui- 

 Parle. 



Reported and described by Rev. S. R. Riggs, Minn. Hist. Coll., vol. 1 (1850-1856), 

 p. 149. 



Dakota County. 



A large njouud a little south of what has been called Black Dog or 

 Gray Irons village, on south si<le of Minnesota River, 



T. S. Williamson in Minn. Hist. Coll., vol. 1 (18.50-1856), p. 29i>. 



