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Title: The Mound Builders

Author: George Bryce

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THE MOUND BUILDERS.

by

GEORGE BRYCE, M.A., L.L.D.

Professor in Manitoba College and President of the
Historical Society, Winnipeg.

[Illustration: (Cup found in Mound at Rainy River, Aug 22nd, 1884.)]

Price, 25 cents.
(Season 1884-85, Transaction 18.)
(Historical Society.)
Manitoba Free Press Print, Winnipeg.

THE MOUND BUILDERS.

A Lost Race Described by Dr. Bryce, President of the Historical
Society.

SEASON 1884-85

Ours are the only mounds making up a distinct mound-region on Canadian
soil. This comes to us as a part of the large inheritance which we who
have migrated to Manitoba receive. No longer cribbed, cabined, and
confined, we have in this our "greater Canada" a far wider range of
study than in the fringe along the Canadian lakes. Think of a thousand
miles of prairie! The enthusiastic Scotsman was wont to despise our
level Ontario, because it had no Grampians, but the mountains of
Scotland all piled together would reach but to the foot hills of our
Rockies. The Ontario geologist can only study the rocks in garden
plots, while the Nor'wester revels in the age of reptiles in his
hundreds of miles of