WORKS NEAR CASSVILLE. 



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Stone cairns containing fiagnients of decaying bnman bones were 

 found on top of the adjacent blutt'; and upon tbe bank of tlie bayou near 

 Cassville is a circular mound 40 feet in diameter and 4 feet high, in tbe 

 base of which, beneath theliard earth, were four skeletons of adults in 

 a much better state of i)reservation. 



Fig. 41.— Effigy mouDda near Cassville, Grant county, Wisconsin. 



The large Dewey farm, now owned by Gen. Newberry, extending 

 from 1 to Smiles north of Cassville, is literally dotted over with mounds 

 and other works. This was a favorite haunt of the modern Indians, 

 who used these earthen structures as depositories for their dead, hence 

 intrusive burials are very common here. In a number explored, of 

 which only the bottom central core remained undisturbed, nothing was 

 found except decaying human bones and very rude stoue iniplemeuts. 



A remarkable series of mounds is situated upon the bluff's about 3 



