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It was 70 feet long and 20 wide across the body. Its fore leg was 8 

 feet long and 10 feet wide and the hind leg 9 feet long and 12 feet 

 wide. The tail was 20 feet long. These dimensions give an idea 

 of the peculiar shape of the mound, with its bulging head, short 

 rounded legs, and down-curved tail extending beyond the ends of 

 the legs. (See fig. 8.) Like some of the other mounds of the group, 

 this bear did not follow the regular type. 



The stratification resembled that of mounds 5 and 9, the first 

 adjacent effigies of two of the lines mentioned above. This fact 

 may add significance to the position of the bear as the focus of these 

 lines. The strata were taken down to the underlying quicksand, but 

 the artificial strata do not extend that far. The bottom of the in- 

 taglio foundation of this mound was 16.78 feet above mean lake 

 level, or 3.5 feet below the top of the mound. This would give an 

 original excavation of 1.5 feet below the surface level. The strata 

 at a point near the middle of the hip of the mound and slightly 

 to the north of the last fire bed, were as follows: 



Surface loam 20.73 



Yellow sand 17.63 



White sand 17.23 



Red sandy clay 16.33 



White sand 15.93 



Red sandy clay . . . . , 15.73 



Golden sand 15.33 



Red sandy clay 15.23 



Golden sand 15.03 



Red sandy clay 14.93 



Bottom of Mound : 



Mottled sandy clay 14.73 



White sand 13.73 



Mottled sandy clay 13.03 



White sand 12.73 



Quicksand 12.13 



Beginning at the center of the mound and continuing through 

 the southern portion, the top stratum of white sand was replaced 

 by golden sand, as shown by the following stratification taken at 

 the geometrical center of the mound. 



