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large group of mounds near Big Bend on Fox river, and including an¬ 
other group near Burlington on the same river. 
The wolf clan we located on the Milwaukee river. The raccoon clan 
on the Sheboygan river. This fixed the map of the southeast part of the 
state. The southwest part of the state was, however, uncertain. Since 
the book was published we have visited this part of the state and have 
passed up the Wisconsin river a second or third time, filling in the links, 
and are now prepared to give the chain of clans which stretched from 
the mouth of the Wisconsin river, up through to the Dells, and from 
the Dells across to the Fox river and from the Fox down to its mouth. 
This is the old historic waterway, but it was occupied in prehistoric 
times. We begin in the southwest part of the state. Our first point is 
at Potosi, an old mining town. Here we identified two serpent effigies 
and a panther effigy. The mounds, however, here are mainly long 
mounds and stretch in lines along the summits of the narrow bluffs — 
very few effigies among them. (See fig. 2.) Cassville was the next point. 
Here we discovered on the estate which formerly belonged to Gov. 
Dewey, and now belongs to Gen. Newberry, of Chicago, a large number 
of long mounds. There is a large group of burial mounds on the 
bottom land opposite the picturesque ruins of Gov. Dewey’s house. 
Passing up the Mississippi river, we come to the mouth of the 
Wisconsin river. Here we find the bear or buffalo upon one side and 
the swallow upon the other. Passing up the Wisconsin we come to 
Boscobel. Here through the politeness of Dr. Armstrong, we were able 
to visit several groups both west and east of the village and to fix the 
limit of the swallow clan. The group which marks the boundary of this 
clan is situated near Port Andrews, and is quite a remarkable group. It 
consists of a line of swallows over a mile long. (See fig. 3.) The swallows 
are on the slope of the hill near the bank of the river and underneath 
the rocky cliff which is here very high. The road runs along the edge 
of the cliff, and overlooks the land where the effigies are. They can be 
