The antiquities of Wisconsin : as surveyed and described . borders it on the south and west, and an extensive swamp on the north andeast, thus separating it from the adjacent country, and rendering it secure fromsudden surprise or attack, without the necessity of extensive works of will be observed, as we proceed, that similar circumstances were often takenadvantage of by these careful people. The fields lie at a considerable elevation above the bottom-lands of the creek,and are much broken and uneven in surface. The soil is loose, sandy, or gravelly,and could be easily worked by th
The antiquities of Wisconsin : as surveyed and described . borders it on the south and west, and an extensive swamp on the north andeast, thus separating it from the adjacent country, and rendering it secure fromsudden surprise or attack, without the necessity of extensive works of will be observed, as we proceed, that similar circumstances were often takenadvantage of by these careful people. The fields lie at a considerable elevation above the bottom-lands of the creek,and are much broken and uneven in surface. The soil is loose, sandy, or gravelly,and could be easily worked by the rude instruments of the aborigines; which mayhave been an inducement for selecting this spot. The subsoil is gravel, to anunknown depth. The Milwaukee and Janesville plank road passes through thefields; and the wood land adjoining has been adopted on account of its gravellysoil, undulating surface, and beautiful forest-trees, as the site of a cemetery for thecity, named appropriately the Forest Home. See that work, p. 179. 11 ANTIQUITIES OF
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