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This tumulus is about eight feet high, and fifty feet in diameter. It is to be 

 hoped that a monument so conspicuous, and so beautifully situated, may be for ever 

 preserved as a memento of the past. It is a picturesque and striking object in 

 passing along this fine lake, and may have been the cause of serious refiections and 

 hio-h resolves to many a passing savage. It is well calculated to aff^t not less the 

 bosoms of more enlightened men. There is neither necessity nor excuse for its 

 destruction; and we cannot but again express the hope that it will be preserved 

 for the benefit of all who may pass along that celebrated stream. 



The summit of the mound is about fifty feet above the lake, affording a very 

 pleasing view embracing the lake and the entrance to the north channel of the river. 



Among the articles discovered in the field near by, was some burnt clay in irre- 

 gular fragments, with impressions of the leaves and stems of grass, precisely like 

 those found at Aztalan. 



This had been a place of burial, and, perhaps, of well contested battles; for the 

 plough constantly turns up fragments of human bones and teeth, much broken and 

 decayed. Arrow-points of flint, and pipes of the red pipestone and other materials, 

 have also been brought to light. 



Two miles further east, and half a mile from Menasha, is a group of eight 

 mounds about four feet high, and from forty to fifty feet in diameter. They are on 

 the southeast quarter of section fourteen, township twenty, range seventeen, not far 

 from the shore of Lake "Winnebago. This ground has been selected for a cemetery 

 by the present inhabitants, who do not scruple to dig up the Indian skeletons to 

 make room for the bodies of a more civilized race. 



The ground here, as in numerous other places,' exhibits marks of former culture 

 in rows or beds, very difierent from that of the modern Indians. These are covered 

 with a dense forest of young and thrifty trees, the largest not more, perhaps, than 

 one hundred and fifty years old ; so that the whole have grown up since the time 

 of Marquette, or within one hundred and eighty yeai's. 



In the village of Menasha is an elongated mound, quite high at the end towards 

 the river, and terminating at a point at the other. A similar one exists on Doty's 

 island,^ forming a sort of counterpart to the first. They are not exactly opposite, 

 but ai'e both directed towards the river. 



The eastern extremity of Doty's island has long been occupied by Indians, as is 

 evinced by the regular cornhills covering nearly the whole surfivce, as well as by a 

 new feature, not before observed, or supposed to be within the pale of Indian cus- 

 toms. The ground was originally covered with loose stones, fragments of the solid 

 limestone rock that exists everywhere not far beneath the surface. These stones 

 had been carefully collected into little heaps and ridges, to make room for the culture 

 of the native crops. The stone heaps are six or eight feet in diameter, and from 

 one to two feet in height. The interstices are now filled with soil, and partially 

 covered with grass and weeds. 



The country about Lake Winnebago was first inhabited by the Kickapoo tribe ; 



• The residence of Hon. James D. Doty, JI. C. 



