THE LARGEST MOUND IN THE UNITED STATES 
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By several writers, the name of “Monks’ Mound” lias been 
bestowed upon this tumulus, under the belief that the settlement 
Fig. 2. 
o" the order of La Trappe was upon its summit. The statements 
of Brackenridge, who visited the place in 1811, while the Trappists 
