The antiquities of Wisconsin : as surveyed and described . The inclosure is about one hundred feet long, and thirty wide, in its greatestdimensions. The opening at d appears to have been caused by the washing awayof the earth by the rain that fell within the inclosure. The walls were nine feetwide and one foot high. The small size of these inclosures prevents their rankingwith the works of defence or other extensive embankments described in the firstand second volumes of the Smithsonian Contributions; and we can only supposethem to be the remains of ancient buildings, or structuies of some kin
The antiquities of Wisconsin : as surveyed and described . The inclosure is about one hundred feet long, and thirty wide, in its greatestdimensions. The opening at d appears to have been caused by the washing awayof the earth by the rain that fell within the inclosure. The walls were nine feetwide and one foot high. The small size of these inclosures prevents their rankingwith the works of defence or other extensive embankments described in the firstand second volumes of the Smithsonian Contributions; and we can only supposethem to be the remains of ancient buildings, or structuies of some kind, needfulin the simple condition of those who erected them. A few rods east of the cemetery, on the land of Mrs. Hull, may be seen a re-markable excavation, surrounded in part by the earth thrown from it. (See PlateIX. Fig. 1.) It has four sloping ways or entrances, one of them very muchelongated; and the reader will not fail to discover in its general figure that of alizard mound reversed. There are other similar excavations to be described here-after;
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