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same results. Both are experienced and careful observers, and for 

 this reason I give Dr Getman's account, written Nov. 6, 1901. 

 He wrote : 



We went to Linnell island today. It is a limestone terrace, sur- 

 rounded by lowland and swamp. . . Mr Gailey says the island 

 contains about 500 acres, with three farms at present. The soil is 

 clay and a gravelly loam, with abundant outcroppings of rock (Chazy 

 limestone). From the map you see the mounds dot the crest of the 

 terrace all around the island ; some at least Y\ of a mile apart. Some 

 of them appear to be built on the rock. In fact we dug the center of 

 one down to see that it was started on the solid rock. We dug on 

 this one near the barn. It had no central depression. We dug the 

 center to the bottom : pit 4 feet square ; then commenced at the edge 

 on the south, and opened to this pit. There are less stones and more 

 soil than at the head of the lake, but we found lots of large hard 

 heads, 8 to 12 inches across, about halfway from the edge to the 

 center. All were burned. The depth was 2 to 4 feet from circum- 

 ference to center. There were streaks of very dark earth and char- 

 coal. Some of the charcoal was small limbs, 2 to 4 inches long, by 

 1 inch through. Three of the mounds have been removed for road 

 building. They appear to make excellent roads. (These are marked 

 A, A on the map, plate 2.) We saw some recent plowing which 

 exposed three more. They were near those removed. 



We looked over the three that had been used for roads. They had 

 been only partially removed. The manner of working had been to 

 plow the soil loose and shovel on the wagons ; three men to beam the 

 plow. In the plowed field some were smoothly plowed; on others 

 the plow ran out. We found in the one near the house of J. 

 Gailey, marked S, a skull and teeth of a muskrat, badly decayed, 

 and a piece of broken stone that looked as if used for a nut stone. 

 That is absolutely everything, except burned stones of all 

 descriptions, charcoal and dirt; unless a few pieces of reddish 

 crumbly pieces of stones were paint stones. S also shows some 

 excavated mounds. 



We looked over the plowed field, pawed over debris of the road 

 mounds, and looked over the road that the stones were used on — a 

 private road to the Klock farm. 



How many mounds there are I have no idea. We counted about 

 20, but there have been and are many more. I think, as a general 

 thing, that they are smaller than those at the head of the lake, and 

 of less depth. Mr Clarence Gailey claimed to have found two 

 arrows when working the road business, but could not produce the 

 find. It is very perplexing that no authentic relics can be found and 

 handled. Pomeroy says the mounds are similar to the one we saw 

 on Fox island ; that is the contents, stone, soil, etc. 



