. The mound builders : being an account of a remarkable people that once inhabited the valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi, together with an investigation into the archæology of Butler County, them would lead to theconclusion that they were high places for sacrifices,where the ancient people gathered on stated occasions tocelebrate the rites of their unknown worship. Big Elephant Hound.—The effigy known as BigElephant Mound occurs in Grant County, Wisconsin,and is described as being situated on the high sandybottom-lands of the Mississippi, on the east side, abouteight miles below the mout
. The mound builders : being an account of a remarkable people that once inhabited the valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi, together with an investigation into the archæology of Butler County, them would lead to theconclusion that they were high places for sacrifices,where the ancient people gathered on stated occasions tocelebrate the rites of their unknown worship. Big Elephant Hound.—The effigy known as BigElephant Mound occurs in Grant County, Wisconsin,and is described as being situated on the high sandybottom-lands of the Mississippi, on the east side, abouteight miles below the mouth of the Wisconsin are on each side of the mound, some fifteen totwenty rods distant, sandy, grassy ridges, somefifteen feet higher than the land about the mound;the mound is, therefore, in a shallow valley, slopinggently to the Mississippi River, and only abouteight feet above high water. Its total length is one 58 hundred and thirty-five feet; from hind feet to back,sixty feet; from fore feet to back, sixty-six feet;width across fore legs, twenty-one feet; across hindlegs, twenty-four feet; from end of proboscis or snoutto neck or throat, thirty-one feet; space between fore. Fig. 10.—Big Elephant Mcund. and hind legs, fifty-one feet; from end of proboscisto fore legs, tliirty-nine feet; across the body, thirty-six feet; general height of body above surroundingground,^ five feet. The head is large, and theproportions of the whole so symmetrical that the moundwell deserves the name of the Big Elephant Mound.*Anomalous Hounds.—Besides the mounds already dis-cussed there are others which admit of no have features in common with all classes, andseem to have been used for a double purpose, whileothers are entirely inexplicable. In some of thesemounds have been found a sepulchre and an altar, bothon the same level. Under this general class we may*Smithgonian Report, 1872. MOUNDS. 59 include also mounds of observation which were undoubt-edly use
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