ort of my partial exploration of a groupof large mounds situated on the alluvial bottom of the Illinois river, in Browncounty, Illinois, thirteen miles below the city of Beardstown. As many readersof this new Archaeologist may not have seen that report; and for a clearerunderstanding of the results… … feet in diameter, with level top, originally eight feet high, but now reduced bythe plow and rains to half that height. On this western side may still be seenthe vestige of a graded way, ascending from the surrounding plain to its top.Fifty yards north of this is the mound, marked 1 in the plat,…
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