The Origin of the Mound Builders: A Thesis (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Origin of the Mound Builders: A ThesisTo ask or search, I blame thee not, for heaven Is as the book of God before thee set, Wherein to read his wondrous works.Let any traveler start from Wisconsin and traverse the Mississippi Valley to the Gulf of Mexico, and cross the country from the Alleghenies to the Western Plateau, and throughout his course he will find thousands of mounds of earth with a conical or pyramidal apex, and containing within their interior relics of human remains and inventions.When a traveler asks the origin and reasons of these mounds, he is almost invariably met with the enigmatical answer, Indian mounds. They were not made by the Indians whom Columbus found on this continent, in fact, their origin was unknown to the Red Man, since they found them here, and they looked as recent to the first European adventurers, with the remains of ancient forests on their sum mits, as they do to us now.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.