Ancient Britain
by George Herbert Cooper (9780217683258)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Chapter II. PREHISTORIC REMAINS OF AMERICA Description and characteristics of the Mound - builders' remains, serpent effigy, circles, horseshoes, etc.?Influence of Britain?Significance of Mexican Calendar-stone and codices regarding the biblical Eden. THE remains of vanished civilizations are met with over a large portion of the United States, Mexico, Yucatan, and to a lesser extent, Central America, and Peru. The remains of the civilizations of North America may be divided into three systems. The mounds and enclosures of the middle and southern states, which are either circular, square or open and irregular curves and smaller curves, commonly spoken of as horse-shoes, because they may be said somewhat to resemble those articles in shape, the Cliff Dwellings of the states of Arizona and New Mexico, and the ancient structures of the Toltec or earlier nations of Mexico and Yucatan. Hereafter we will speak of the ancient civilizations and relics of Mexico and the other countries of Central America as Mexican. Those of the North we will refer to generally as the Mound-builders. The remains of the Mound-builders differ greatly in general plan. The mounds are laid out in the form of circles, squares etc. There are also effigies of reptiles, birds and beasts, (see Fig. 3) as well as figures of certain constellations of the heavens. 3. Animal Effigies on Bluffs, Mississippi River, near Prairie Du Chien. In the state of Ohio, along Brush Creek, is a bluff on which is the effigy of a serpent, about twelve hundred feet long, it appears to be in the act of seizing an egg with its jaws. This specimen is about four feet high, heaped up of the earth of the vicinity. There are also smaller ones elsewhere in this district. Across the Ohio river from Portsmouth, on the Kentu...

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