ANCIENT WORKS NEAR ROCK RIVER. 51 



At Wolf Point (section twenty-seven, township ten, range sixteen), in the lower 

 part of the town of Hustisford, we oljserved traces of a recently abandoned Indian 

 village, but no ancient works. Here, it is said, a great Indian battle was fought, in 

 times long gone by; and here Black Hawk made a stand against his white pursuers 

 in 1832. 



At Hustisford a stone was shown us, which, Ijy the aid of a little imagination, may 

 be supposed to represent the head of a bird ; and whicli 

 was held in great veneration by the Winnebago Indians, 

 who have but very recently been removed from this part 

 of the State. It is a boulder of gneissoid granite, of acci- 

 dental form, caused by the unequal decay and disintegra- 

 tion of the different layers of which it is composed. (See 

 Fig. 16.) 



At this place (Hustisford), there are the remams of a tuc stone Bird. 



number of lizard mounds by the mill race, and also on 



the point opposite, on the east side of the river. There is a mound only two feet 

 high, but having a considerable level area on the top, near the mill, which is said 

 to be tlie place where prisoners of war were tortured and sacrificed by the Indian 

 inhabitants. An examination disclosed partially calcined stones, ashes, charcoal, 

 &c., in the centre. 



The river here has a rapid current, caused by a ledge of limestone of the same 

 kind as that in the lead districts of the western part of the State ; the whole fall 

 being about seven feet. 



The country around is made up of a series of ridges like those before referred to, 

 with intervening valleys, having a general direction nearly north and south. They 

 are usually from twenty to fifty feet, and occasionally even one hundred feet in 

 height, and frequently several miles in length. One of these ridges of great height, 

 on the east side of the river, seems to have been selected as the principal cemetery, 

 as we find it occupied by a series of round mounds, forming a nearly straight row 

 along the summit. (Fig. 17.) They are so situated, that if the forest-trees were 



Fig. 17. 





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removed, a very extended prospect could be ol)tained, embracing the site of the 

 village below, and the course of the river in either direction. Three of these are 

 partially blended at the base, and two had a slight ridge extending towards the north- 

 east, or in a direction /yom the village; or the tadpole (the significant name of this 

 variety of mound) was headed towards the principal works and probably main 

 residence of the ancient population. 



The lizards arc here, as in most localities of a similar kind, placed with the 



