58 ANTIQUITIES OP WISCONSIN. 



Oil the adjoining tract (northeast quarter of section fifteen), are some round 

 mounds ; among them two of larger dimensions than usual, being from twelve to 

 fourteen feet in height, and from sixty-five to seventy feet in diameter. 



These several groups form a regular row, from east to west, a little north of May- 

 ville. There is a similar arrangement at about the same distance south of the 

 village, commencing at a group of three mounds near the centre of section twenty- 

 six, which were very accurately surveyed and delineated by Mr. Crawford (see 

 Plate XL) — the cross, as usual, with a direction opposite to that of the other 

 figures, of which the central one is doubtless intended to represent the trunk and 

 arms of the human body. The trunk is two feet high, the arm§ and shoulders 

 one foot. The animal-shaped figure is brought too near this man on the plate 

 (being ninety feet distant). It differs from most others of similar configuration 

 in its slender form, rounded head, and recurved caudal extremity. The body is for 

 most of its length two and a half feet high ; the legs, head, and tail are one foot and 

 a half high; but the tail gradually slopes down to about six inches at the extremity. 



On the northeast quarter of section twenty-seven is a group of four mounds, of 

 which one has the unusual form represented on Plate XXXIX. What it was 

 designed to represent, it is difficult to conjecture. 



The next group is three miles southwest of Mayville, being on the northwest 

 quarter of the same section, and occupying the southern extremity of one of the 

 remarkable ridges so often mentioned. The road from Mayville to Horicon passes 

 directly by it. The general character of the figures will be understood by inspection 

 of Plate XL. A portion were in a cultivated field, and the breaking-up plough 

 had just been at work upon the remainder. Another year, and it would have been 

 for ever too late to delineate them. It will be observed that all the figures of this 

 group have their heads in one general southwesterly direction, except the cross, 

 which, as is almost always the case^ has a course directly opposite. From the 

 extremity of the longest mound, which is on the highest ground, a general view of 

 the whole is obtained ; and this may, perhaps, be regarded as the watch-tower or 

 look-out station. It is four hundred feet long. 



On section thirty-three, near Horicon lake, are also some mounds, not shown 

 on the plate, lying west of those represented. They consist of two ridges, one of 

 considerable length, on the side of a ridge sloping towards the lake. 



On the very high ledge of limestone, at the southwest corner of section twenty- 

 seven, which overlooks Lake Horicon, I was disappointed in not finding artificial 

 works. 



On section twenty-five, township eleven, range sixteen, about seven miles south 

 of Mayville, is a cross examined by Mr. S. E. Lefierts, of that place. We did not 

 visit this locality, though we learned that the cross is associated with other mounds. 



At the town of Theresa, on the elevated ground on the south side of the river, 

 near the residence of Solomon Juneau, Esq., is a group of figures mostly of the 

 lizard or oblong forms, and among them an excavation similar to those observed at 

 Fort Atkinson and near Milwaukee (see Plate IX, Fig. 5). Most of the lizard 

 mounds here are directed towards the south, but two are in an opposite direction ; 

 this being the first case of the kind observed. 



