Pre-Historic Man: Darwinism And Deity. the Mound Builders
Pre-Historic Man: Darwinism And Deity. the Mound Builders
M F Manning Ferguson Force
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They are so numerous that Ohio alone is estimated to contain some thousands, large and small. They vary greatly in magnitude. Some are trifling em- bankments scarcely rising above the surface of the ground, or little hillocks three or four feet high ; while others, like the works of Newark and Portsmouth, in this State, embrace fourteen and sixteen miles of em- bankment; or, like the mound at Cahokia, Illinois, have a base of six acres, a summit platform of five acres, and a height of ninety fe...et, containing twenty million cubic feet of earth. They vary as greatly in design as in size. The pur- pose of some is obvious; the intention of others has not yet been divined. Some are fortifications ; some lookouts or signal stations. Some, filled* with bones, are clearly burial mounds. The large conical mounds Digitized by Google Some Considerations on the Mound Builders. 51 have been the subject of much speculation. The late Dr. Wilson, of Newark, told me he believed they were raised gradually by successive burials; that a , layer of bodies or skeletons was covered with earth ; that, after some time, upon this was placed another layer of bodies covered with earth ; and by such repetition the mound grew.
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