COURTOIS GROUP. 



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is shown in Fig. 22. 'No. 1 (tlie long one) is 142 feet long, 21 feet wide 

 at the north end, 20 in the middle, and 13 at the south end. It is about 

 2 feet high and extends northwest and southeast. 



No. 2, the effigy, 410 feet 



south and a little west of No. 

 1, is about 3 feet high, the top 

 round, and the surface tolerably 

 even, with highest point on the 

 back ; the slopes to the east ab- 

 rupt. It measures from — 



Feet. 



a to & 75 



6 to e 38 



ctof7 41 



dtoe 72 



c to f 36 



e to ;/ 70 



fto/j 106 



c to /( 22 



c to J 20 



cto A; 24 



c to ; 26 



c to «i 49 



c t(t « 42 



e to 45 



Width of left wing at tip 8 



Width of left wing between tip 



and bend 17 



Width of left wing at bend 21 



Width of left wing at body 23 



Width of Iiody at end 20 



Width of body at butt of wings. 30 



Width of nei'k atbntt of wings. 28 



Width of head from ]> to fj 31 



Width of head at end 14 



Width of right wing at body ... 24 



Width of right wing at bend ... 21 

 Width of riglit wing between 



bend and tip 19 



Width of right wing at tij) 7 



Expanse of wings, from a to e. . . 200 



The ends of the wings and body are roughly semicircular. 



THE COURTOIS GKOLP. 



About 3 miles north of Prairie du Chien is a group of ordinary con- 

 ical mounds situated on Sec. 12, T. 7 N., R. 7 W., the general plan of 

 which is seen in Fig 23. The mounds numbered 1 to 9 are on a long, 

 narrow, sandy swell, about 70 or 80 feet wide, which runs north and 

 south, and is just high enough to place them out of reach of the high 

 water of the Mississippi; the others, numbered 10 to 33, are in the 

 adjoining fields. 



