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MOUND EXPLORATIONS. 



No. 3 is situated about 100 feet north but mucli below No. 1, and is 

 about 20 feet in diameter and i feet high. Nothing whatever of inter- 

 est was found in it. 



Nothing was observed in rehition to these worlvs differing from the 

 usual conical mounds fouud iu this region except tlie peculiar coni- 



FiG. G. — Mound group near Madison, Wisconsin. 



manding position they occupy and the walled structure iu No. 2. Of 

 the numerous blutts in this region no other affords sucli a clear and 

 extensive view of the surrounding country as this. An unobstructed 

 view of the Mississippi for a considerable distance above and below, 

 also \\]} the Little Iowa, Winnebago, and other streams, is here ob- 

 tained. Prom this position can be seen the mouth of lioot river on the 

 west, and on the east the deep-gorged Badaxe, and the last battlefield 

 on which Black Hawk fought. It must therefore have always been a 

 favorite lookout point or station 



