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injured as to loose all their interest in the -eyes;Let us hope that in Wisconsin, the case will be different—that here itjle.ast, the future, traveller will not have: to. iregret the lots/oi' thps$: records of an ancient people. I^ovr is the tirne, when • the country is yet npw, to take jflnj^-ecessa-ry- . measures for Ui^jr preservatiohj1 which . docs nbt require tholmnd on' which they are 'found should remain^ seless, for if sown to grass or planted:with fruit trees it may be made to yield ia ricff returji withoat injuring the ancient works. In rmny, places it would be proper to inclose a small field of wood-land, and alIow’ tbeorjgineIforest tiees to remain. . t j.-i., i.;:/V.;Theso ro.marks were suggested a few days since when- examining that singular mound at Prairie Village, eighteen miles west Of Milwaukee, which is supposed to -.represent the form of a turtle,y Jt is of an oval shape, 56 feet long,and about 5 c r 6 feet high,;hav-:ing-four projections of ridg es of earth, which are supposed to; represent the legs—the anterior pair are turned towrfds the extremity and th.O:posterior' pair backwards, , ^he tait is composed of a.ridge of earth,two hundred and fifty feet.long, and diminishes, gradually to a point at the extremitv. Near the end of the tail stands' a mound 60 feel in diamer !ter and-60; feet high, from which the present proprietor or-claimant has removed die hu-nnan bones to make room for his stock' of po* tatoes! Such; sacrilege .£hould be , made a. punishable offence by.the il aw. The dimensions here stated are from actual measurement. •’••••. '’An -Indian grave .has .been made on .the back of the turtle,-and, a trail leading frost their village to the waters of Fox river passes directly over the tail, on which it is worn down to the original surface of the ground-So it appears that, both re d and white men have combined to destroy these... interesting Temams.—Milwaukee Advertiser.
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Belmont Gazette
Belmont, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Jan 11, 1837
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