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PATHS OF MOUND-BUILDING INDIANS

on the east. The animals lie in a correct position to be viewed from the road.[1]

Between the Round Pond mounds (Union county, Illinois), which are so near together that "one appears partially to overlap the other," runs a roadway.[2]

A roadway cuts through the ancient works on the Boulware place, Clark county, Missouri; the alignment of the road and the series of works is nearly the same.[3]

The Rich Woods works, Stoddard county, Missouri, lie on a long, sandy ridge; "the general course is almost directly north and south." The road to Dexter runs near them, touching one, in the same north and south direction the entire length.[4]

The Knapp mounds, Pulaski county, Arkansas, "the most interesting group in the state," are surrounded by a wall of earth. A roadway passes through the entire semicircle formed by this surrounding wall,

  1. Twelfth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, p. 85.
  2. Id., p. 160.
  3. Id., plate viii.
  4. Id., p. 175.