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Shawnee Mound, Tippecanoe County, as a Glacial 

 Alluvial Cone. 



Wm. A. McBeth. 



There stands at the northwest corner of section twenty-three (23). 

 town, twenty-one (21) north, range six (6) west, a locally well known hill, 

 quite unusually large and prominent for that part of the country, which 

 generally is a moderately undulating, and, over extensive areas, a quite 

 monotonous plain. 



The area of the hill is about thirty-five (35) acres. Its height at the 

 apex is seventy-five (75) feet above the steps of the front door of the 

 residence (facing the road) located near the southwest edge of the hill 

 on the general level of the country. A creek channel at the northwest 

 edge is eighty (80) feet or more below the summit. The long axis of the 

 hill is east west, in which direction it is nearly one hundred (100) rods 

 long, with varying cross-distances averaging a little more than half its 

 length. The high part is near the east end, where the steepest slopes 

 occur. A small basin lies at the foot of this east slope. The distance of 

 the highest point is almost one-third (i) of the length of the pile from 

 the east end, whence the slopes are much gentler to the western edge. 

 The outline and form of this feature may be properly described as lobate, 

 four leaves, including the west end, showing on the south side, and three 

 on the north side not symmetrical with or opposite those on the south 

 side. 



In structure and material the hill is composed of sand, gravel, silt, clay 

 lumps and a very few boulders. The rock fragments are igneous, or 

 crystalline material in great variety, rounded and polished after the man- 

 ner of stream-worn waste. It is very irregularly bedded with a generally 

 abrupt pitch to the west, or in the direction of the long slope of the hill. 

 The pebbles are not in many cases larger than apples or baseballs, very 

 few exceeding four or five inches in any diameter. Beds of fine sand, 



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