Madison, Dane County and surrounding towns; being a history and guide to places of scenic beauty and historical note .. . PORPHYRY, GREENSTONE. appears on a Peruvian relic, showing a figure carvecion silver, bespeaks high civilization. The stone bat-tle axes found at Kenosha; stone hatchets from Cot-tage Grove, from Green Bay, and from our immedi-ate surroundings, are replete with human interest, be-cause full of mystery from an age unknown. Someday we may master the problem which, sphynx like,demands solution, as to the tumuli systematicallyraised, enclosed in mathematical figures and lines o
Madison, Dane County and surrounding towns; being a history and guide to places of scenic beauty and historical note .. . PORPHYRY, GREENSTONE. appears on a Peruvian relic, showing a figure carvecion silver, bespeaks high civilization. The stone bat-tle axes found at Kenosha; stone hatchets from Cot-tage Grove, from Green Bay, and from our immedi-ate surroundings, are replete with human interest, be-cause full of mystery from an age unknown. Someday we may master the problem which, sphynx like,demands solution, as to the tumuli systematicallyraised, enclosed in mathematical figures and lines of HISTOKT OF MADISON. 197 circumvallation, builded by men wlio were conversantwith mining operations, who could procure their owncojjper from the matrix, as well as shape it into artis-tic forms; who wove cloth probably when the lakevillages of Switzerland were first settled; who couldprepare designs in stone and clay, expressing thoughtsthat approach the sublime, and evince a comprehen-sion of the beautiful; yet have fallen below the realmof history, leaving to generations now remotely fol-lowing them, the task to
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