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Title: Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters
Subjects: Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters Science
Publisher: (Madison) Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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der other village sites, and tocompare these with the one which has been identified. Thesecond locality where an ancient village has been identifiedis at Waukesha. The points of .resemblance between thetwo localities are as follows: 1st. The locality was favorable for the subsistence ofa large population. The same forests which intervenebetween the Fox river and the lake stretch north-ward, and here forms a border line between woodland and prairie, and between one form of naturalproducts and another, thus affording a double supply ofwild game and of natures cereals and fruits. The local-ity is similar to that at Great Bend, in that there was anextensive prairie bordering upon an extensive marsh, andsimilar surroundings of high hills, and the same variety ofsoil, At this place there were formerly extensive groups ofemblematic mounds, some of them on the prairie itself andsome of them in the openings surrounding, and some on thesummit of hills in the vicinity. It is evident from the na-
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Fig. 6.—Map of Works at Waukesha, Ancient Villages Among Emblematic Mounds. 173 ture of the works that here had been a center of nativepopulation. See map, Fig. 5. The Fox river, also here furnishes a similar expanse ofmarsh filled with wild oats. The advantages for gaining asubsistence from the forests, and the stream and the openprairie are similar to these found in the previous locality.There are signs here of cultivation of the soil. (See Fig. 6.)We quote from Dr. Lapham: Much of the groundabout Waukesha was, in 1836, covered with Indian corn hillsor remains of the recent culture of maize. In this localityas in numerous others, the mounds occupy the highest groundand the points of hills and other places whence the most ex-tensive view, both above and below can be obtained. Thetown of Waukesha stands on a slightly undulating plainsurrounded by hills, forming a fine amphitheatre, which inancient times was doubtless crowded, as it is now, with nu-merous population. One fact is impo

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