Emhlematlc Mounds. 



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THE SO-CALLED ELEPHANT MOUND IN GRANT COUNTY, 

 AND EFEI6IES IN THE REGION SURROUNDING IT. 



By Rey. S. D. PEET. 



Tlie survey of the mounds in the neighborhood of the so-called ele]3hant 

 effigy, which was undertaken under the auspices of the Wisconsin Academy 

 of Arts, has not, for various reasons, been reported until now. The survey 

 was conducted by the writer mainly during the year 1885, but a trip previous 

 to that in 1882, and subsequent to it in 1886, are to be taken into the accovmt. 

 It is vt ry fortunate that the Society recommended this survey at the time 

 that it did, as many of the mounds then in a good state of preservation, have 

 been destroyed since. A railroad has been built along the valley of the 

 Mississippi and the track has been laid in the very midst of the mounds 

 that were surveyed. Before giving a description of the survey we i^ropose 





80 r«e^. 



Scale 34 feet to tbe incli. , 

 Fig. 1. 

 to give a history of this effigy. The discovery of the elephant effigy was 

 made by Mr. Jared AVarner, of Patch Grove, Grant County, and the account 

 was first published in the Smithsonian report of 1872, with a cut, an elec- 

 trotype. (See Fig. 1). Mr. Warner says "this effigy was situated on 

 the high sandy bottom lands of the Mississippi, on the east side, about eight 

 miles below the mouth of the Wisconsin river. There are on each side of 



