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Show ~ THE PRESENT STATE OF the pieces are stuck several pieces of silver ; one nearly the s ze ofa four penny piece, or haifa dime. This was copper ornament rust, and covered is considerably A piece of red corroded. ochre, or paint, and a piece of iron ore, appearance of having been partially vitrified, or mel‘The ore is about the specific ted, were also found. iy iron.” gravity of pure imof degree good Surely these things indicate some provement in some of the arts of life. Multitudes of other things are noted tn this most Valuable pubiication, in which these things are given. The great antiquity of these works of the natives 1s ‘Trees of the third. growth proved beyond a doubt. are found standing on them, whose annular rings show WY them to have than been more years hundred four , age. of And the hugeness of those works indicates a vast population. Synth? writing wilt irgini to the the Antifrom Virginia The clergyman uarian Society, of the works at Grave Creek, says ofa vast tumulus “the Jig called in that neighborhood, | Grave ;” “It is certainly one of the most august monu- Its ments of remote antiquity any where to be found. ts base—I the at feet circumference is three hundred its diamaltitude from measurement is ninety fect, and This lofty and eter, at the summit, is forty: five feet. to ascer- as venerable tumulus has becn so far opened bly) o! huiain thatit contains many thousands (proba = Of the uumerous man skeletons, but no farther. says JOA oa dian works of this region the writer 7 would pro survey of the ahove mentioned works formed but pars ted, and show that they wereall ne connec 449 iesch the ae ofa whole, laid out with taste. aac These ancient works continued al er Ohio river to the Mississippi, where es ike fine magnificent. far more were eee ; . Seabees They abound sitions, and il , tions of rivers, in most eligible posit ‘that rivercee eX: The number of tumuli on tha fertile lands. than (we smallest not less ceeds three thousand ; * the dred 1n | ere hun t. feet m height, and one . hase. The largest are of huge magolt y . : = agcn ‘ Py U at AND Cut, 7-O-1t C2 “5 the @ e ISRAFL,. Archaeology says; 199 i waveJ '} been some; when these as numerous there were 5000 citat ies once full of peo sHe. 1 am perfectly satisfied that cities similar to thous hau cieut Mexico, of several hundred thous sind souls (Says the writer) have existed in this country. Nea dyno. site ot. Lou is there are traces of two such ciljcs iH the distance of live miles. One of the mounds js eht ha idred yards in cireamference at the base, (abou! lity ro is yo diameter) cnis; eo the exact size of the P3 Sinica of 43 d and one hundred feet in height.” — (Soe Americana, page 189.) ‘Phe author Ati Says, In apc cing of many of these pyramids of the west; there is gne near Washington, Mississippi state, of one handred and forty-six Teet in height!” = "Aricles found in and near these works show the improvementor the arts “ations those who erected them.” Thouzh these tu. mult were used as places to bury their dead, and places for temples, altars and religious Worsh ip; they were no doubt places also for the jast resort when like- ly to be overcome by an enemy. Solis, a writer noted } in the Archeology, when describi ng the destruction ,+ offleeing the he Mexi Mexiccans : by by the the Spani S p a n i ards, eS: s ryt. ; . A es speaks . of them ma “e ag aiceing to theinDeocalli. ( he Teocalli were high eo formed for the site of their temples, for altars . Tl‘The name "Tea. 'TeoHlumbolt miorms, was given these sacred places and Raepiaces: for . ento entom mbin bir:g the > dedeatad. . - rom the hame ot the god, to whom the place was dedioc) Solis informs that in the time of the conflicts of the Mexicai: with the Spaniards, their Teocaj}i appesred hike living hills covered with Warriors, determia to defend ont at ey x JUDAH ~_* as tivat which once animated the borde rs of the Nile of of the uphrates.or of Mexico. Brackenr idve calculates en that has the which ot times induced to think that at. the perao d were ccnstructed, there was 4 population of green a coat with former in the = 1e j F their sacred places, where were their altars, and the tombs of their fathers, Here ought with desperation. The high places and é Sah ~ oy es - ry 1. ee ty ‘|’ : } | of the natives on the Mississipp i, no doubt 1e same purposes with those of South Amer- : . e writer of the Archeology remarks that had temples been builtdt on on anyany ' f their re or © > : Sao a ss i’ ' of their hihigh places,‘ proba.y HO ; vestige of them would now be ©yisib Visi | C. : *< 4 4177144we 2 .. es 2 |