112 MOUND EXPLORATIONS. 



won from the Indians. He was placed on liis l)ack on a puncheon 

 slanting at a low angle to the ground, where his feet were sustained 

 by another, and covered with several inches of sod. Then a roof-shaped 

 covering of slabs or puncheons, one end elevated and the other lowered, 

 was placed above. Over all was thrown a covering of earth and sod 

 to the depth of a foot or more, and the whole surrounded by a line of 

 pickets some 8 or 10 feet high. The subsequent steahng of his bones 

 and their return to his friends have been recorded by the historian and 

 poet, and need not be repeated here. 



VAN BUREN COUNTY. 

 MOUNDS NEAR l>OUD. 



These mounds are some 18 in number, circular in form, of rather 

 small size, and placed in a nearly straight line upon the very crest of 

 a remarkably straight and sliarp ridge, 30 or 10 feet higher than the 

 plateau upon which the town is built. 



One denoted No. 1, about 25 feet in diameter and 5 feet liigh, had 

 been previously opened by Mr. Doud, and yielded two gray disks each 

 4 inches in diameter, a grooved stone axe and stone chips. 



No. 7, about 20 feet in diameter and 3i feet high, was explored and 

 found, as usual, to contain a core of hard earth, but nothing else. 



No. 12, diameter 25 feet and height 4 feet, was found to contain, be- 

 neath the hard core and lying on the original surface of the ground, 

 decayed human bones and three fragments of dark colored pottery. 



No. 14, opened, nothing found. 



No. 15, same size as No. 12. In this, beneath a very liard core and 

 lying horizontally on the original surface with head north, were the 

 remains (scarcely more than traces) of a human skeleton. 



LEE COUNTY. 



Upon the bluffs near the junction of the DeS Moines river with the 

 Mississippi were many cii-cular mounds, most of which have been opened 

 and inimerous articles mostly of intrusive burials obtained therefrom. 

 Several were opened by the Bureau agent, but nothing found in them 

 save decayed human bones, fragments of pottery and stone chips. 



) ILLINOIS. 



JOE DAVIESS COUNTY. 



Overlooking the city of East Dubuque (Dunleith) is a line of blufts 

 whose grassy slopes and summits ai-e dotted over with ancient mounds 

 of unusual symmetry, some of them above the usual size for this section 

 of the country. The relative positions of these mounds to one another, 

 to the bluffs, and to the river are shown in the diagram (Fig. 54). 



