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Discover? or Largb Hum ax Sxculetoz;s.• !— BucKj of Driesback City, six miles north \ of La Crosse, sends the following account of the discovery ‘of large human skeletons to-the Winona Republican:•U,A. L_ Jenksj-of this place, in prospect* mg in one of those, mounds that are so common- in this western country, disco? ere d at the depth of five or six the remains ofSeven or eight people of very large siae. One thigh hone measured threw feet in length.— The under jaw Was one moll wider than that of - any other man in this city. lie also found clam, shells, pieces of ivory or boats rings, pieces of kettles made of earth and coarse sand,. There were at th* neck of one of these'skeletons .teeth two'inches iu length by one-balf to three-fourths of an inch in diauovter, with holes drilled into the sides, and the' end polished,•’with- a crease around it. Also an arrow, five'inches lcngv by one and a . half wide, stuck through the back, near the back bone; and one about ioght inches long, stuck into - the left breast- Also the bladtf of a copper hatcliet, 1 1-2 jiich wide at the edge and two inches -long. -This hatchet was found stuck in the skull of the same skeleton. The mound Is some two hundred-feet above the surface of the Mississippi, and is composed of ciay, .immediately.', above the remains, two feet thick; then comes a layer of llack loam | then another layer of clay, six inches thick, all so closely packed that it was. with difficulty that it could bi* penetrated. There are some four or live dif-ft'i’eut layers of *artli above thw.r^tnatnsThere is no suck clay found elsewhere in this vicinity.Tl
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Milwaukee Daily Sentinel
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Jul 04, 1860
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