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Perhaps a indicates a bison or buffalo, and is the best executed picture of the col- 
lection. Its size is 19 inches long by 154 inches from tip of the horns to the feet. 
b represents a hunter, with a boy behind him, in the act of shooting an animal 
with his bow and arrow weapon. The whole representation is 25 inches long; the 
animal from tip of tail to end of horn or proboscis 12 inches, and from top of head 
to feet 7 inches; the hunter 11 inches high, the boy 44. 
ce represents a wounded animal, with the arrow or weapon near the wound, This 
figure is 21? inches from the lower extremity of the nose to the tip of the tail, 83 
inches from fore shoulders to front feet, and 8 inches.from the rump to the hind feet. 
The weapon is 44 inches long by 5 inches broad from the tip of one prong or barb to 
that of the other. 
d represents a chief with eight plumes and a war club, 11 inches from top of head 
to the lower extremity, and 6} inches from the tip of the upper finger to the end of 
the opposite arm; the war club 64 inches long. 
Dr. Hoffman made a visit to this cave in August, 1888, to compare 
the pictographic characters with others of apparently similar outline and 
of known signification. He found but a limited number of the figures 
distinet, and these only in part, owing to the rapid disintegration of 
the sandstone upon which they were drawn. Many names and inserip- 
tions had been incised in the soft surface by visitors, who also, by means 
of the smoke of candles, added grotesque and meaningless figures over 
and between the original paintings, so as to seriously injure the latter. 
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Fic. 92.—Petroglyphs at Trempealeau, Wisconsin. 
Mr. T. H. Lewis (d) describes the petroglyphs, a part of which is repro- 
duced in Fig. 92, as follows: 
Last November my attention was called to some rock sculptures located about 24 
miles northwest from Trempealeau, Wisconsin. There is at the point in question an 
exposed ledge of the Potsdam sandstone extending nearly one-eighth of a mile along 
the east side of the lower mouth of the TrempealJeau river, now known as the bay. 
Near its north end there is a projection extending out about 7 feet from the top of 
the ledge and overhanging the base about 10 feet. The base of the ledge is 40 feet 
back from the shore, and the top of the cliff at this point is 30 feet above the water. 
On the face of the projection, and near the top, are the sculpture figures referred to. 
The characters designated a a are two so-called canoes, somewhat crescent-shaped, 
but with some variation in outline; b has the same form, but the additional upright 
portion overlaps it; ¢ and d are also of the same form as a, but ¢ is cut in the bottom 
of d; e probably represents a fort, and its length is 184 inches; fis a nondescript, 
and it partly overlaps d; g is a nondescript four-legged animal, its length in a 
straight line from the end of the nose to the tip of the tail being 103 inches; h may 
be intended to represent a foot, but possibly it may be a hand; it is 7} inches in 
length; i isan outspread hand, a little over 15 inches long; 7 undoubtedly repre- 
sents a foot and is 44 inches long; k & are of the same class as a, 
