Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, volume 1
Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, volume 1
Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, Women's Centennial Association
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12, PI. IV), of a soft whitish stone, probably unfit for the purpose, and perhaps aban- doned on that account. ^ ^ Several of the horn implements like those in the third mound were also found here. All these articles were kindly donated to the Academy by the seven gentlemen above mentioned, and are now in its collection. Mound Explorations in 1876. BY CLARENCE LINDLEY., , On the north side of Rock River, opposite the town of Milan, Rock Island, Illinois, and on a high ridge, one fourth of a mil...e from the river, is a group of mounds arranged in two rows, meeting at right angles like the letter T- This arrangement, was probably the result of the configuration of the ridge. Late in the spring, in company with several others, I explored one of this group. The mound exam- ined was 9 feet 7 inches high and about 30 feet wide at the base. The soil of which it was composed, was principally yellow clay. Near the surface we found several very large flat stones, lying on their flat sides. There was nothing of particular interest in this mound, unless it was the position of the bodies — which, as near as we could detect, were, without exception, with the head west and the feet east.
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