Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . dence of the ancient activities of men,are plentifully distributed. These arethe mounds which the tribes builded,in burial and for other Tumuli and oth- 11 11 i er memorials of purposes, generally called primeval man inTumuli: standing stone Europe,structures of several varieties, knownas Menhirs, Cromlechs, and Dol-mens; barrows, camps, fortifications,dykes, and perhaps altars of sacrifice,besides manv other kind
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . dence of the ancient activities of men,are plentifully distributed. These arethe mounds which the tribes builded,in burial and for other Tumuli and oth- 11 11 i er memorials of purposes, generally called primeval man inTumuli: standing stone Europe,structures of several varieties, knownas Menhirs, Cromlechs, and Dol-mens; barrows, camps, fortifications,dykes, and perhaps altars of sacrifice,besides manv other kinds of rude 332 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. architecture and memorials. Such re-mains, hardly of sufficient dignity to beknown as ruins, are found not only inEurope but everywhere in the MENHIR, AT CROISIE, FRANCE. Perhaps no country, great or small, iswithout such manifest evidences and il-Abundance of lustrations of the long dead such remains actiyitieS of ITlCeS and throughout the -world. tribes unknown to history. Everywere this substratum of humanlife, more aboriginal than the aborigines,existed. Traces of it are found on everyhand. America, as well as the olderlands, abounds in astonishing proofsof nations that existed here, even instrength, between whom and the Indianraces tliat held the continent on its open-ing to civilization as wide aspace of time and characterexists as that between therudest of the Red men andtheir Saxon mound builders havebeen abroad ; and the long,serpentine mole of earth, orconical hill, of artificial con-struction, standing here andthere in the civilized coun-tries of to-day, bear mute,but everlasting testimony of the ancientand undiscoverable peoples who havegone down to dust. It is said by Sir John Lubbock that in the
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