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inent and forms the top of the principal mound; occupying the center of 
the enclosure, may be seen at least 100 elevations, which stretch about 400 
yards to the westward. The effigies which form the walls to this enclosure 
are eagles, the eagle being the totem of the clan at Muscoda. A simi¬ 
lar cluster has been described by an old settler living near Merritt's 
Landing, as having formerly existed on a knoll not far from his house. 
The effigies surrounding the enclosure were mink, their tails extending 
out long distances, like the spokes of a wheel, their heads toward the 
center. We have said that the mink was the totem of this region. We 
would say also that one of the groups of effigies of this place consisted of 
a long line of elks which stretch along the borders of the lake. The so- 
called citadel on the top of the hill was not far from the end of this line. 
Fig. 5.—Sacred Enclosure near Port Andrews. 
Mr. K,. C. Taylor discovered a long line of “ bear effiigies ” near the “ Blue 
Mounds ” in Dane county. In the line was the man mound. The line 
was about one and one-half miles in length and contained six effigies of 
bears, six oblong mounds and one effigy of the human figure and a small 
circle. There is a group on the south shore of Lake Mendota near Mer- 
ril’s Springs. Here there is a short line of burial mounds with the effigy 
