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Population (2000): 1117 Housing Units (2000): 504 Land area (2000): 1.215597 sq. miles (3.148382 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.215597 sq. miles (3.148382 sq. km) FIPS code: 50777 Located within: Illinois ...
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n. (plural of mound English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: mound )
Usage examples of mounds.
The flanks of two of the mounds had worn away, exposing limestone ledges and heavy boulders underneath.
Tumuli have been found in Yorkshire enclosing wooden coffins, precisely as in the mounds of the Mississippi Valley.
Wisconsin a number of mounds of earth representing different animals-men, birds, and quadrupeds.
It was found in a section where the ancient mounds were very abundant and rich in relies.
No remains of the dead and no mounds are found near these mines: it would seem, therefore, that the miners came from a distance, and carried their dead back with them.
The two figures on page 260 represent vases from one of the mounds of the Mississippi Valley.
There can be no doubt that the pyramid was a developed and perfected mound, and that the parent form of these curious structures is to be found in Silsbury Hill, and in the mounds of earth of Central America and the Mississippi Valley.
Their circular mounds are found in Minnesota and Iowa, and some very large ones in Dakota.
Their mounds were not cones but four-sided pyramids-their sides, like those of the Egyptian pyramids, corresponding with the cardinal points.
Indian mounds, from the Lakes to the Gulf, are crumbling into dust through age alone.
Mexico and the Mississippi Valley, as proved by the presence of implements of obsidian in the mounds of Ohio, renders it probable that the same commerce which brought them obsidian brought them also small quantities of tin, or tin-hardened copper implements necessary for their sculptures.
The presence of great truncated mounds, kindred to the pyramids of Central America, Mexico, Egypt, and India.
In the mounds of the Mississippi Valley, as I have shown, the remains of iron implements have been found.
Then they buried the boots on either side of the Mounds, as a backup, like, to trap his evil spirit there forever.
Another few minutes brought them to the Mounds themselves, swelling gently out of the surrounding earth, rocky at the base, sparsely covered with grass and brush along the top.