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water, a vast number of tumuli. UiDon the summit of some of these may, from 

 time to time, be recognized the modern grave of some Winnebago or Menomonee 

 chief, strongly protected by pickets. The margins of the Neenah river are 

 remarkable for numerous Indian remains of this description. Colonel Petitval, of 

 the United States Topographical Department, who was engaged during the summer 

 of 1837 in a survey of this river, had the kindness, at my request, to give some 

 attention to these mounds. He describes an immense assemblage of them at a 

 point on the river called the Ked Bank, extending far into the interior, both north 

 and south, for an undetermined distance. Twelve of them at this place were opened 

 under his direction, and among them was an animal mound one hundred and fifty 

 feet long. All contained human bones in a very decomposed state."^ 



The mounds examined by me along the Apuchwa and Buffalo lakes, were entirely 

 of the conical form, or burial-mounds. They were observed at the villages of 

 Marquette, Montello, Roxo, and Packwaukee ; the same places that formerly were 

 the seats of aboriginal population being now selected as the sites of embryo towns 

 and villages by men of a different race. 



There is a fine group on section twelve, township fourteen, range ten, occupying 

 prairie ground near a branch of Grand river. Further up this river (on section 

 eleven, township fourteen, range eleven) is a collection of about one hundred 

 mounds, mostly of the same form. Only one was sufficiently perfect to admit of 

 being surveyed and delineated. It is called the " Man," and is remarkable for the 

 unequal length of the arms. (Fig. 26.) It had been opened before our visit. The 



Fig. 26. 



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Tlie Man, near Mt. Moriah. 



head points to the south, and towards a high hill called Mount Moriah, The soil is 

 sandy, and the mounds do not, therefore, preserve their original shape as distinctly as 

 in other localities. The round mounds are worn down and spread out, so as to form 



» Silliman's Journal, XXXIV, 95. 



