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plainly seen from the road and are very interesting and beautiful though 
they are fast disappearing under the plow. There is one swallow here of 
which we shall speak hereafter. It is at the end of the line of swallows 
but is placed by itself on a knoll, and so surrounded by long mounds as 
to be protected on three sides, constituting a sort of enclosure by itself. 
East of this, in the neighborhood of Muscoda we find the eagle to be the 
common .emblem. 
Fig. 3.—Line of Swallow Effigies near Port Andrews. 
The eagle clan appears to have been a large clan. It extended from 
near Port Andrews, up through all the towns on the Wisconsin river and 
as far east as Sauk City and even extended over the water-shed, and left 
its totem on the banks of the four lakes at Madison. Mr. S. Taylor was 
the first to recognize the eagle, but he said nothing about the eagle clan 
and did not follow up the subject in this way. In fact all the early 
Archaeologists were successful in their work of identifying particular 
birds and animals, but did not undertake to trace the clan emblems or 
to study the totem system. The eagle effigy, discovered by Mr. S. Taylor, 
at Black Earth, marks the western extremity of this clan. The eagles 
which, in company with Prof. P. W. Putnam, we discovered at the Dells, 
may have marked the eastern extremity, though the center of the clan hab¬ 
itat proper was in the vicinity of Eagle township. We notice that there 
is a difference in attitude of the eagles. At Muscoda there is a bird effigy 
which is about 1,000 feet in length with the wings straight out. We 
also found about twenty eagles with their wings partly folded in the 
spread eagle attitude. At the Dells of the Wisconsin and near Sauk 
City, the eagles have their wings in a straight line, exactly as they are 
on the asylum grounds north of Madison. At Honey creek there are 
two eagles near a game drive, and near the game drive two elks with a 
foe watching the elks, but in this same locality we discovered several 
swallows, showing that the swallow clan came into the territory of the 
