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PATHS OF MOUND-BUILDING INDIANS

to give a brief catalogue of such roads and ways as seem of most importance in the Catalogue of Prehistoric Works previously quoted:

Manitoba, Dominion of Canada: "Calf Mountain" (Tête de Bœuf), a mound 95 feet in diameter and 15 feet high, with a graded roadway 2 feet high, running southwest from it 154 feet; about 60 miles north of Pembina.[1]

Jefferson County, Georgia: Remains of large cemeteries and a broad trail leading to Old Town, 8 miles from Louisville, on the eastern side of the Ogeechee.[2]

Lowndes County, Georgia: Ruins of an "old town" within a few miles of Troupville, "with roads discernible, which are wide and straight."[3]

Fayette County, Indiana: Camping grounds and traces of old trails in Secs. 34 and 36, T. 13 N., R. 13 E.[4]

Franklin County, Indiana: Traces of camp sites and old trails are observable on

  1. American Antiquarian, vol. viii., pp. 369, 370.
  2. Smithsonian Report, 1879, p. 443.
  3. White's Historical Collections of Georgia, p. 541.
  4. Smithsonian Report, 1882, pp. 737–749.