The antiquities of Wisconsin : as surveyed and described . means, secure their permanent preservation?Unless something of this kind is done, and speedily, all knowledge of them will beconfined to the scanty records of those who have attempted to describe them. SECTION WORKS OF THE VALLEY OF ROCK RIVER, ABOVE THOSE AT AZTALAN. In the valley of Rock river we find no traces of ancient works for some distanceabove Aztalan; the first being in the town of Ixonia (section nineteen, townshipeight, range sixteen). Here are seven or eight mounds along the right bank of theriver, on an elevat
The antiquities of Wisconsin : as surveyed and described . means, secure their permanent preservation?Unless something of this kind is done, and speedily, all knowledge of them will beconfined to the scanty records of those who have attempted to describe them. SECTION WORKS OF THE VALLEY OF ROCK RIVER, ABOVE THOSE AT AZTALAN. In the valley of Rock river we find no traces of ancient works for some distanceabove Aztalan; the first being in the town of Ixonia (section nineteen, townshipeight, range sixteen). Here are seven or eight mounds along the right bank of theriver, on an elevated position, as usual, commanding a fine view of the river aboveand below. There are said to be others in the vicinity. One of them has been opened for the purpose of making a place in which tobury potatoes, to secure them from the frosts of winter. Numbers of human bonesare said to have been thrown out from near the bottom, where the earth had beenhardened by some artificial process. No implements or ornaments were noticed. 1 Squiers Nicaragua, Vol. ANCIENT WORKS NEAR ROCK RIVER. 51 At Wolf Point (section twenty-seven, township ten, range sixteen), in the lowerpart of the town of Hustisford, we observed traces of a recently abandoned Indianvillage, but no ancient works. Here, it is said, a great Indian battle was fought, intimes long gone by; and here Black Hawk made a stand against his white pursuersin 1832. At Hustisford a stone was shown us, which, by the aid of a little imagination, maybe supposed to represent the head of a bird; and whichwas held in great veneration by the Winnebago Indians,who have but very recently been removed from this partof the State. It is a boulder of gneissoid granite, of acci-dental form, caused by the unequal decay and disintegra-tion of the different layers of which it is composed. (SeeFig. 16.) At this place (Hustisford), there are the remains of a Tbo stone Bird number of lizard mounds by the mill race, and also on the point opposite, o
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