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Mound No. 5, '* Mound City." 
This mound is by the side of Mound No. 4, the bases of the 
two uniting ; they are also both of the same size and form. 
The altar," however, in No. 5 is more like that in No. 2, 
although somewhat smaller. It contained about thirty 
pounds weight of galena in pieces ranging from two ounces to 
three pounds ; also several lumps of fine clay. Around this 
deposit there was a quantity of charcoal. Although the galena 
was but slightly burnt, yet the "altar" bore marks of intense 
heat, showing that it had been previously subjected for a con- 
siderable period, or at frequent intervals, to the action of fire. 
Mound No. 7, Mound City." 
This mound is much the largest within the enclosure. It 
measures seventeen feet and a-half in height, by ninety feet in 
diameter at the base. At the depth of nineteen feet a smooth 
level floor of clay, slightly burnt, was found ; this was covered 
with a layer of sand, about one inch in thickness. Resting on 
this was a crescent-like figure, formed with sheets of mica, 
which overlapped each other like the scales of a fish. The 
sheets are about ten or twelve inches in diameter. See No. 
24, Case E 6. The crescent was about twenty feet from horn 
to horn, and about five feet in width. The outer edge of the 
crescent rested on an elevation, or ridge, of sand, six inches in 
height. The clay floor of this mound was but a few inches in 
thickness. 
Mound No. 8, Mound City." 
The greater part of the stone smoking-pipes in the Collection 
were obtained by Squier and Davis from this mound. A 
stratum of sand overlaid the altar. Immediately under the 
sand was a layer, a few inches thick, of burnt loam ; beneath 
this, in a hollow, was a deposit of ashes, containing about 
200 stone smoking-pipes, many pearl and shell beads, several 
discs and tubes of copper, and a number of copper ornaments 
covered with silver. 
The altar, was six feet two inches in length and four feet in 
width. The whole of the objects found upon the altar had been 
exposed to a heat sufficiently intense to fuse some of the copper 
objects. The pipes also are greatly injured, many of those 
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