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coimt of these remains, or to furnish the shghtest tradition re- 

 specting the ancient possessors of the soil." 



Having disposed of as much of the details in my possession, as 

 appear necessary in relation to the localities of animal shaped 

 earthworks, I have little to add concerning the mounds and In- 

 dian antiquities of other parts of this continent. Ample details 

 respecting a great many of them may be found in well known 

 works on these subjects, such as that of Dr. McCulloch,* and the 

 Archasologia Americana. 



From these and other authorities it does appear, that the forms 

 of these mounds elsewhere are materially different to those I have 

 been describing in Wisconsin and to the north of it. 



The animal form does not prevail in the Indian monuments 

 within the valley of the Ohio. No allusion is made by Colonel 

 Long, in the nan'ative to his second expedition, to any but the 

 ordinary circular tumuli, in the relative positions of which the 

 editor observes, " we could discover no order or plan." On the 

 banks of the Miami river, a group of one elliptical and four cir- 

 cular mounds is described, and figured in plate 2, of the narrative. 



On the Fox river, of the Illinois, Colonel Long saw many 

 mounds, counting twenty seven at one spot, arranged with a cer- 

 tain degree of regularity, " varying from one to four and a half 

 feet in height, and from fifteen to twenty five feet in length. 

 Their breadth is not proportionate to their length, as it seldom 

 exceeds from six to eight feet ,•" other mounds are described of 

 an oval form. 



The square and pyramidal mounds occur most frequently in 

 the south ; and Dr. McCulloch, who is good authority on the sub- 

 ject of Indian antiquities, observes, " that there seems to be a ma- 

 terial difference in the construction and position of the mounds 

 in Georgia and Florida, from those of Ohio, Kentucky, (fccf 



Tumuli, in the form of truncated pyramids, also occur in the 

 south. Dr. Kain has described a group of six possessing this form 

 in East Tennessee. Their proportions are ten feet in height, 

 by thirty or forty paces in diameter, in the base ; the whole group 

 being enclosed by a ditch. 



Mounds, having an exact rectangular form, ace described by 

 travellers as existing in Tennessee. 



* Researches, Philosophical and Antiquarian, concerning the Aboriginal His- 

 tory of America, by I. H. McCulloch, M. D. 

 t McCulloch's Researches, p. 503. 



