wings, having walls of
earthwork two feet high, of oblong shape, and enclosed on all sides
except at the east and west, where there are entrances of about four
feet in width.

Others, composed of hundreds of tons of earth, shaped like a tortoise,
with truncated mounds all around it.

Others, fashioned like men, and Titans at that, some lying prone upon
the prairie, others in the act of walking. The limbs clearly defined,
the body vast and well moulded, like a huge colossus. One near Baraboo,
Sauk County, Wisconsin, discovered by Mr. William H. Canfield, and
reported to the Philosophical Society by Mr. Lapham, of Milwaukee, was
visited also by us. It is two hundred and fourteen feet in length; the
head thirty feet long, the body one hundred feet, and the legs
eighty-four. The head lies toward the south, and the motion (for he is
represented in the act of walking) is westward. All the lines of this
most singular effigy are curved gracefully, much care having very
clearly been bestowed upon its construction. The head is ornamented with
two projections or horns, giving a comical expression to the whole
figure.

Near the old military road, about seven miles east of the Blue Mounds,
in Dare County, Wisconsin, we found another man effigy. It lies in an
east and west direction, the head toward the west, and the arms and legs
extended. It is one hundred and twenty-five feet long, one hundred and
forty feet from the extremity of one arm to that of the other. The body
is thirty feet in breadth, and is most carefully moulded and rounded;
the head twenty-five feet; the elevation above the surface of the
prairie nearly six feet.

On the north side of the Wisconsin River, about four miles west of the
village of Muscoda, we heard of and found another human effigy. Its
peculiarity was that it had two heads, and they reclined with a certain
grace over the shoulders. The arms were not in proportion, nor fully
represented. Length of body fifty feet, legs forty feet, arms one
hundred and thirty feet; lying north and south, the head southward.

Others, a kind of hybrids, half man half beast or bird.

Others, representing birds with outstretched wings, like the forked-tail
hawk or swallow.

Others, eagles without heads.

Others, coiled snakes, or outstretched snakes.

Others, elk or deer.

Clusters of mounds star shaped, seven in number, with the sun-shaped
mound in the centre.

Others, representing mathematical symbols.

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