Foot Prints of Vanished Races in the Mississippi Valley Being An Account of So
Foot Prints of Vanished Races in the Mississippi Valley Being An Account of So
Alban Jasper Conant
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But joined together, as he expressed it, as closely and evenly as any mason could do it to-day. From these, and similar facts, I am led to believe that possibly many of those which appear outwardly to be simply piles of stones loosely thrown together, and which are to be counted by thousands upon the hills in various parts of the State, may be the remains of the un- cemented walls of ancient habitations. And this conviction receives additional strength from the fact that recent explorations of ...many earthen mounds have disclosed a vault, walled and arched with stone, — some of large dimensions, — with contents similar to those of Utah. 76 AKCH^EOLOGY. much smaller, was beautifully arched with stone. At the time the nar- rator saw it, it was cleared of the decayed skeletons and was used as a dairy -ho use. The two just mentioned were in Missouri, and distant from each other one hundred and fifty miles. Again the question recurs Who built them ; and whence their architectural skill and knowledge?
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