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Vfe have been very polile-ly 'ruini h‘-l*wiiit a 1 in to re-ting drawing of a group 01 undent artificial mounds lately discovered at Cirwibrdtsvillo on the Piditaku I'!-'. \) river, on the roads from ihis place to Geneva kite and from Racine to Madim'.i.— TlioiC mounds are from three to '-event' on rods it. length, and generally about fmr feet, high— and their form is such that with but little resistance from the imagination ihcj may be supposed to rcpre-ent I.z.ud-, alligators and living dragon-*. They all point in one L'cncraS direction 1 ut are not pree.se-lv pa) allel. There is one very large mound oVcrlcokin; the whole, and a copious spring of pu-e water in the vicinity. The ground on which the mournls are found is higa and afford 5 a very fine prospect of dm surrounding -revery.It r fiords us much pleasure to and. diat the proprietor has taken measures to havethe'e relics of an ancient people preserve-.! for tl inspection of the curious traveler.
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Milwaukee Advertiser
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
Sat, May 27, 1837
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