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PATHS OF MOUND-BUILDING INDIANS

to the city. The road passes through one of the group and the remainder follow the road on high ground almost parallel with it.[1]

The road from Prairie du Chien (Wisconsin) to Eastman is paralleled by a long line of works. As previously noted (p. 69) this road follows the alignment of an old Indian trail.[2]

There are mounds on both sides of the Black River road near Hazen Corners, Wisconsin.[3]

In the archæological map of Hazen Corners, Wisconsin, the works bear a significant relation to the junction of the three roads which meet there. Supposing the roads to be the prehistoric route of travel, it is seen that all the mounds lie just beside them, many even touching them, but in only one instance does a mound cross any of the three present roads. True, the roads may have destroyed some of the works, but of the effigy mounds, at least,

  1. Twelfth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, pp. 46, 47.
  2. Id., p. 52.
  3. Id., p. 56.