Excerpt from Miscellaneous Papers Relating to Anthropology: Prepared Under the Direction of Prof. Otis T. Mason, From the Smithsonian Report for 1881 On the farm of William Kouns, on the Kansas Pacific Railroad, near Edwardsville, Wyandotte County, Kansas, 14 miles west of this city, there are four mounds that have never been explored. They are situ ated on the third terrace of the valley of the Kansas River, about one half mile from it, near a small creek. There is a very large spring about 200 yards northeast, and a smaller one about 300 yards northwest. On approaching the mounds from the east we find them extending in a straight line in a due westerly direction. They are about 6 feet in height, 25 feet in diameter, about 50 feet from each other at the base, and of uniform size. They have been somewhat injured by cultivation, the ground having been plowed twice. The soil is a black loam. De fore the clearing of the land the mounds were covered with a heavy growth of timber, principally oak, and the stumps now remainin g would indicate great age, averaging from 3 to 4 feet in diameter. A large number of axes, celts, arrowheads, and other implements have been found in the immediate vicinity of the mounds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Reports for 1884-1886/87 issued in 2 pts., pt. 2 being the Report of the National Museum.