APPENDIX B. 



NOTES OF ABORIGINAL EAETUWOKKS WITHIN AND NEAE THE AREA 

 OF LAKE AGASSIZ. 



Archeologists will be interested in the following- brief notes of tlie localities of 

 monnds in this district, to which reference has been made in Chapter XI, page 012. 



Many mounds, probably not less than flfty in all, varying from li to 15 feet iu 

 height, are situated on the bluffs of both sides of Lake Traverse, Browns VaUey, and 

 Big Stone Lake. 



Three isolated mounds, each about 5 feet high, were noted on the right bank of 

 the Red River, in Wilkin County, Minn,, one being about 12 miles east of Brecken- 

 ridge, another about 4 miles north of that town, and a third in McCauley ville. 



Close south of the Red River, uear the mouth of Ottertail Lake, is a group of 

 sixteen mounds, varying from 1 to 10 feet in height; and others, single or iu groups, 

 are found at many places in Ottertail County. 



In Clay County, Minn., a small mound was noted near Muskoda, and another 

 near the South Brauch of the Wild Rice River. 



(More detailed statements concerning these and the foregoing localities are given 

 in the Geology of Minnesota, Vol. I, p. 631, and Vol. 11, pp. 533, 558-561, and 671.) 



Mounds and artificial embankments are situated on and near the beaches of Lake 

 Agassiz in many places. In the greater part of these instances the earthworks have 

 been already described, or at least mentioned, iu this volume (pp. 281:, 313, 347, 349, 354, 

 390,412,413,431). Among all these localities the most notable is close north of the 

 Forest River, about C miles northwest of Inkster (p. 349). According to a survey 

 of this group of mounds by Mr. T. H. Lewis, they number about forty, ranging from 

 1^ feet to 13 feet in height, some of them being connected by low embankments. 



In the south part of Crookston an aboriginal mound about 6 feet high and 100 

 feet in diameter lies on the south bluft' of the Red Lake River, close east of Mr. 

 Erskine's brickyard. 



On the prairie, close west of the mouth of Red Lake and north of the Red Lake 

 River, is a large mound about 15 feet high. 



Beside the Roseau Lake trail, between 2 and 4 miles eastward from its crossing of 

 the South Branch of Two Rivers, five oblong mounds or embankments, each about 3 

 feet high, are reported by Mr. Charles Hallock. These are on the crest of a beach 

 ridge, probably the Tintah beach. 



Two mounds, respectively 5 and 3 feet high, are situated about half way between 



Fort Pembina and the town of Pembina, being some three fourths of a mile north of 



the fort and an eighth of a mile west of the Red River. 



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