(72) Winchell's "Preadamites," p. 389.
(73) Brinton's "Myths of the New World," p. 23. Note.
(74) Prof. DeHass's "Paper" read before Am. Assoc., 1882.
(75) See chapter, "Cave-men," p. 113. Note.
(76) See remarks of Prof. Boyd Dawkins quoted earlier.

Chapter X

THE MOUND BUILDERS.<1>

Meaning of "Mound Builders"--Location of Mound Building tribes--All
Mounds not the work of men--Altar Mounds--Objects found on the
Altars--Altar Mounds possibly burial Mounds--Burial Mounds--Mounds
not the only Cemeteries of these tribes--Terraced Mounds--Cahokia
Mound--Historical notice of a group of Mounds--The Etowah
group--Signal Mounds--Effigy Mounds--How they represented different
animals--Explanation of the Effigy Mounds--Effigy Mounds in other
localities--Inclosures of the Scioto Valley--At Newark, Ohio--At
Marietta, Ohio--Graded Ways--Fortified Inclosures--Ft. Ancient,
Ohio--Inclosures of Northern Ohio--Works of unknown import--Ancient
Canals in Missouri--Implements and Weapons of Stone--Their knowledge of
Copper--Ancient mining--Ornamental pipes--Their knowledge of pottery--Of
Agriculture--Government and Religion--Hard to distinguish them from the
Indians.

The past of our race is irradiated here and there by the light of
science sufficiently to enable us to form quite vivid conceptions of
vanished peoples. As the naturalist, from the inspection of a single
bone, is enabled to determine the animal from which it was derived,
though there be no longer a living representative, so the archaeologist,
by the aid of fragmentary remains, is able to tell us of manners and
times now long since removed. In the words of another: "The scientist
to-day passes up and down the valleys, and among the relics and bones
of vanished people, and as he touches them with the magic wand
of scientific induction, these ancient men stand upon their feet,
revivified, rehabilitated, and proclaim with solemn voice the story of
their nameless tribe or race, the contemporaneous animals, and physical
appearance of the earth during those prehistoric ages."<2>

We have already learned that the world is full of mysteries, and though,
by the exertion of scholars, we begin to have a clearer idea of some
topics, yet our information is after all but vague and shadowy. The
amount of positive knowledge in regard to the mysterious tribes of
the older Stone Age, or the barbarians of the Neolithic period, or
the struggling civilization of