The Prehistoric World: or, Vanished Races, page 329 by E.A. Allen
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iquarian,</i> January, 1883. (49) Putnam, in "Proceedings of American Antiquarian Society," 1884. (50) Peet's "Emblematic Mounds and Totem System of the Indian Tribes." (51) Abbott's "Primitive Industry," p. 383. (52) Peet's "Military Architecture of the Emblematic Mound Builders." (53) "Smithsonian Report," 1877, p. 278, <i>et seq.</i> (54) "Ancient Monuments," p. 97; <i>American Antiquarian,</i> January, 1883, p. 77. (55) This information is communicated by Mr. L. N. Tower, a gentleman in the employ of C. & N. W. E. R., at Tracy, Minn., who, at the request of the writer visited this locality, made measurements, etc. (56) <i>American Antiquarian,</i> November, 1884, p. 403. (57) The dimensions of this figure vary. Mr. MacLean's survey makes the entire length of the serpent part eleven hundred and sixteen feet; the distance between the extended jaws, one hundred feet. The oval figure is one hundred and thirteen feet long by fifty feet wide. The frog or head portion is fifty-five feet. Mr. Squier says, "The entire length, if extended, would be not less than one thousand feet." Mr. Putnam's measurements make it fourteen hundred and fifteen feet. The writer would state that he visited this effigy in the summer of 1884. Though there but a very short time, and not prepared to make careful measurements, he did notice some points in which the illustrations, previously given, are certainly wrong. The oval is not at the very extremity of the cliff. The little projections generally called ears of the serpent are not at right angles to the body, but incline backwards. The convolutions of the serpent's body bend back and forth quite across the surface of the ridge. (58) Schmuckers. (59) "Ancient Monuments," p. 47. (60) Foster's "Prehistoric Races," p. 175. (61) "Contributions North American Ethnology," Vol. IV, p. 210. A cut of this "restored" pueblo is there given. (62) See discussion of this subject in "Proceedings of Am. Antiq. Society," Oct., 1883. (63) "Peabody Museum Report