ANCIENT WORKS NEAR FOX RIVER. (i;5 



They are situated on tlie extremity of a ridge, at a place where tiie main ledge is 

 further back from the lake, and is much less steep. 



Here was found a turtle-mound, but differing from the usual form in several 

 particulars, as will be seen by the figure. 



The land along the east shore of Lake Winnebago is among the finest in the 

 State. The growth of trees and shrubs is so dense that it is difficult to penetrate 

 it without the aid of an axeman. It is just such land as would be selected by an 

 agricultural people. 



These are, doubtless, the structures alluded to by Mr. R. C. Taylor, from infor- 

 mation communicated to him Ijy Dr. Lyman Foote, of the United States Army.^ 



There are mounds of ordinary circular form in the vicinity of the southern extre- 

 mity of Lake Winnebago ; some of them have Ijeen opened and found to contain 

 human bones. 



We have heard of others of imitative forms on the west side of the lake, between 

 Oshkosh and Fond du Lac, which we did not visit, nor could we obtain very definite 

 information in regard to them. 



Just before the Neenali enters Lake Winnebago, it expands into a broad sheet 

 of water called the Great Butte des Morts lake. Near the head of this lake is 

 the mound from which its name is derived, on the north or left bank of the river. 

 This is the site of the conflict between the Chippewas and French against the Sauk 

 and Fox bauds f but I can find no authority for the popular belief that the tumulus 

 was raised at that time as a covering for the bodies of the slain. 



Near this Butte the Wolf branch of the Neenah enters, being properly the 

 main stream. Col. Charles Whittlesey, of the United States Geological Corps, 

 explored this stream, and he informs me that he found no remains of ancient 

 works on its banks. 



At the Falls of the AYaupacca (a tributary of the Wolf) mounds are said to exist, 

 and also at some other localities in the vicinity. 



Near a small stream, called Eight-mile creek, in the town of Utica, on the land 

 of Mr. E. B. Fiske (northwest quarter of section fourteen, township seventeen, 

 range fifteen), is a mound called the Spread Eagle (see Plate XLI, No. 3). It 

 is of small dimensions, the whole length being only forty-six feet. 



There are two oblong embankments in the vicinity ; and the house is built upon 

 another called the Alhgator, but its form could not be distinctly traced at the 

 time of our visit. 



There is a group of conical tumuli, forming an irregular row, half a mile below 

 Ceresco (section seventeen, township sixteen, range fourteen), and others of a similar 

 character formerly existed at and near the village. 



At several points along the Neenah, between the Portage at Fort Winnebago 

 and the Butte des Morts, are localities of mounds. 



Mr. R. C. Taylor informs us that " on the shores of Buffalo and Apuchwa lakes, 

 wherever the land is dry and sufficiently elevated, one may observe, even from the 



' Sillimau's Journal, XXXIV, 95. 



- Pike's Expedition, Appcudi.v to Part I, p. 45. 



