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sitting posture, with backs against the walls. In the center of the 

 space around which they were grouped was a fine large shell, Busy- 

 con perversum, which had been converted into a drinking cup by 

 removing the columella. Scattered around this were quite a number 

 of pieces of broken pottery. The end cells, walled off as heretofore 

 stated, were nearly filled with a fine chocolate-colored dust, which, 



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Fig. fS. — iMound in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, section. 



when fir.st uncovered, gave out such a sickening odor that it was 

 found necessary to suspend operations until the next day in order to 

 give it time to escape. . . . The covering consisted of oak logs, nearly 

 all of which had been peeled and some of the larger ones somewhat 

 squared by slabbing off the sides before being put in place." 

 (Thomas, (1), pp. 115-117.) Similar inclosures were discovered in 



Fig. 9.— Mouncl in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, base. 



other mounds of the group. The true nature of the "fine chocolate- 

 colored dust " was not determined. 



While the preceding was one of the most perfectly formed stone 

 inclosures ever found east of the Mississippi and represents a cer- 

 tain high degree of skill of the people by whom it was constructed, 

 another a short distance northward may be regarded as exemplify- 

 ing the other extreme. This refers to a small mound, one of a 

 group, on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi about 1 mile above 

 Lynxville, Crawford County, Wisconsin. It was 17 feet in diameter 



