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since has been found convenient to build towns and cities. One of these mounds was levelled in the center of Chillicothe, and cart loads of human bones remobed from it. Another may be seen in Cincinnati, in which a thin circular piece of gold, alloyed with copper, was found last year. Another in St. Louis, called the falling garden, is pointed out to strangers as a great curiosity. Many fragments of earthenware, some of curious workmanship, have been dug throughout this vast region. Some represented drinking vessels, some human heads, and some idols. They all appear to be moulded by the hand and hardened in the sun. These mounds and earthen implements indicate a race inferior to the first, which was acquainted with the use of iron.
The third race are the Indians, now existing in the western territories. In the profound silence and solitude
of these western regions, and above the bones of a buried world, how must a philosophic traveller meditate upon the
transitory state of human existence when the only traces of the beings of two races of men are these strange memorials!
"On this very spot, generation after generation has stood, has lived, has warred, grown old, and passed away; and not
only their names, but their nation, their language, has perished, and utter oblivion has closed over their once
populous abodes! We call this country the New World. It is old! Age after age, and one physical revolution after
another, has passed over it, but who shall tell its history?"
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