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• . _ • •• • I ,lt;tIThese remarks wei® suggested a few days since when- examining that singular mound at Prairie Viliage, eighteen . miles west of Milwaukee, which is supposed to - represent the form of a turtle.,. It is of an oval shape, 56 feet long, andahout 5 or6 feet high,;hav^ :ingfour projections of ridges of earth,which are supposed to: represent the legs—the anterior pair are t'uraed towrrds the extremity and the pos terior pa'ir bac kwards,... The; fail is composed of .a. ridge of earth,two hundred and fifty feet long, and diminishes, gradually to a point at the1 extremity. Near the end of the tail stands a mound 60 feet in diame-- . - . ~ .• • • . « CT7. • • « .. . . . ......4er and-60; feet high, from which the present proprietor or-claimant has removed die human bones to make room for his stock of po-' * ■ • 1 - * II 1; . * j * I ■ ‘| * ‘I* • I ' / • 1fninotjl fliinh’ csprilpfTP 'chitliW marlii atatoes ! Such sacrilege .should be , made a. punishable ofience by.the iJ:aw. The dimensions here stated'are from actual measurement. '' ’'. An Indian -grave has been made on .the
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Belmont Gazette
Belmont, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Jan 11, 1837
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