Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History
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" Such was the position of the pyramids in the vallies ofthe Euphrates and the Nile, and the idea appears to have reachedAmerica without any deviation whatever in its relative position, or itsgeneral design. It was every were, throughout America, as we find it, in the vallies of Mexico and the Mississippi, erected in rich and levelvallies, or plains, and dedicated to idolatrous worship.
The mound builders of North America, north of the tropical latitudes, appear like bad copyists of a sublime o...riginal. They retained the ideaof the oriental pyramid, but being no mechanics constructed piles ofearth to answer the ancient purpose, both of worship and interment. Ourlargest structures of this kind, are the mound of Grave Creek inWestern Virginia, containing about three millions of cubic feet, andthe great group of the Monks of _La Trappe_ in Illinois, estimated atseven millions of cubic feet. [12] Those of Saint Louis, mount Joliet, and the Blue mounds respectively are now known to be of _geological_origin.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" Such was the position of the pyramids in the vallies ofthe Euphrates and the Nile, and the idea appears to have reachedAmerica without any deviation whatever in its relative position, or itsgeneral design. It was every were, throughout America, as we find it, in the vallies of Mexico and the Mississippi, erected in rich and levelvallies, or plains, and dedicated to idolatrous worship.
The mound builders of North America, north of the tropical latitudes, appear like bad copyists of a sublime o...riginal. They retained the ideaof the oriental pyramid, but being no mechanics constructed piles ofearth to answer the ancient purpose, both of worship and interment. Ourlargest structures of this kind, are the mound of Grave Creek inWestern Virginia, containing about three millions of cubic feet, andthe great group of the Monks of _La Trappe_ in Illinois, estimated atseven millions of cubic feet. [12] Those of Saint Louis, mount Joliet, and the Blue mounds respectively are now known to be of _geological_origin.
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