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Rh were erected near the highways traveled, as has been the case with all other races of history. It is now in point to show that their mounds and effigies were not only on high ground, but often on the ranges of hills.

Examining Crawford county, Wisconsin, we find the mound-builders' works "on the main road from Prairie du Chien to Eastman," which "follows chiefly the old trail along the crest of the divide between the drainage of the Kickapoo and Mississippi rivers The group is, in fact, a series or chain of low, small, circular tumuli extending in a nearly straight line northwest and southeast, connected together by embankments They are on the top of the ridge."

"About 2 miles from Eastman, just east of the Black River Road,  are three effigy mounds and one long mound They are situated in a little strip of woods near the crest, but on the western slope of the watershed and near the head of a coulee or ravine."