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also at Waukeesha (Rochester)- at [source] [Calculations in upper right of page].

Platte Mounds, two conical elevations of mounds, about two hundred feet high near the source of the Pekatonica in Iowa county, twelve miles from Mineral Point. They are three miles apart and there is a much smaller mound between them. Belmont stands at the base of the eastern mound. They are composed of limestone rock; and are visible upwards of thirty miles-affording in former times a very useful guide or land mark to the traveller who had no roads to guide his course. The Indian name is Eu-ne-she-te-no-(the two mountains). The view from the [eastern] summit of these mounds is thus described by Gen'l Smith. "An ocean of prairie surrounds the gazer, whose vision is not limited to less than thirty or forty miles; this great sea of verdure is interspersed with delightfully varying undulations like the vast waves of the ocean, and every here and there sinking in the hollows, or cresting the swells, appear spots of wood, large groves, extensive ranges of timber, small groups