Young folks' history of the United States . d away likewise, leaving only obscure and scat-tered memorials of themselves. CHAPTER II. THE MOUND-BUILDERS. AFTER the last mammoth was slain, it is possible Mound-that many centuries may have passed before the ^^^^*^®Mound-Builders came to occupy the soil where theseanimals had been. The Mound-Builders were a raceof men who never saw the mammoth, we may be verysure ; or else they would have carved or painted itslikeness, as they did those of the birds and beasts theyknew. But, though they made pictures of these crea-tures, they unfortunately did no
Young folks' history of the United States . d away likewise, leaving only obscure and scat-tered memorials of themselves. CHAPTER II. THE MOUND-BUILDERS. AFTER the last mammoth was slain, it is possible Mound-that many centuries may have passed before the ^^^^*^®Mound-Builders came to occupy the soil where theseanimals had been. The Mound-Builders were a raceof men who never saw the mammoth, we may be verysure ; or else they would have carved or painted itslikeness, as they did those of the birds and beasts theyknew. But, though they made pictures of these crea-tures, they unfortunately did not make equally distinctpictures of themselves; so that we do not know whatthey looked like ; and, as theywrote no books, we do notknow what language theyspoke. All that we know ofthem is from the wonderfulworks of industry and skillthat they left behind, and es-pecially from certain greatmounds of earth they is from these great worksthat they derive their name. the serpent mound. One of the most remarkable of these mounds is to 5. YOUNG FOLKS UNITED STATES. The Serpentmound. Other moundsand theiruses. Whereothermoundsare. be seen in Adams County, Ohio. It represents animmense snake a thousand feet long, and five feetthick, lying along a bluff that rises above a you can trace all the curves and outlines of thesnake, ending in a tail with a triple coil. In the openmouth, something in the shape of an egg seems to beheld ; and this egg-shaped mound is one hundred andsixty feet long. This shows on what a vast scale theseearth-works are made. Sometimes they are shapedlike animals, sometimes like men. In some placesthere are fortifications, often enclosing one or two acresof ground, and in some cases four hundred these earth-works have from fourteen tosixteen miles of embankment. In other places thereare many small mounds arranged in a straight line,at distances nearly equal, and extending for manymiles. These are supposed to have been used for s
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