. Young folks' history of Mexico. ages of history. They understood and practisedagriculture and many arts. Being driven from a countryin which they had been long settled, by invading savages,they commenced a journey southward, halting at intervalslong enough to plant corn and cotton and gather thecrops. [596.] Their annals tell us that they began their migra-tion in the year i Tecpatl, or 596 of our Christian country they left, supposed to be in the north, theycalled Huehue Tlapaltan, or the old Tlapaltan. Here again enters speculation, upon the location of thatcountry of the Toltecs.
. Young folks' history of Mexico. ages of history. They understood and practisedagriculture and many arts. Being driven from a countryin which they had been long settled, by invading savages,they commenced a journey southward, halting at intervalslong enough to plant corn and cotton and gather thecrops. [596.] Their annals tell us that they began their migra-tion in the year i Tecpatl, or 596 of our Christian country they left, supposed to be in the north, theycalled Huehue Tlapaltan, or the old Tlapaltan. Here again enters speculation, upon the location of thatcountry of the Toltecs. No one knows certainly whereit was, but everything points to its having been in thenorth. If you are acquainted with the early history of the UnitedStates, you will remember that the oldest remains of civili-zation there are those of the Mound Builders. You willrecall the descriptions given of the great earthworks lyingin the Ohio and Mississippi valleys; works so vast that itmust have taken many generations to complete them, and. The Moimd Builders. 29 erected so long ago that not even the faintest traditionremains to tell who built them. They were a very civilized race, these Mound Builders,very different from the savages who surrounded them, orwho have since swept over the country they once occu-pied. They extended their sway, we know, as far north as LakeSuperior, because old shafts have been discovered in thecopper mines there, and detached masses of copper ore,with the wedges and chisels they used at their work. Thiswas but an outpost of theirs, for their great works were inthe south. Everything seemed to indicate, also, that theycame from the south. Besides axes, adzes, lance-heads,knives, etc., found in these mounds, explorers have alsounearthed pottery of elegant design, ornaments of silver,bone and mica, and of shell- from the Gulf of there have been found there implements of obsidian^ avolcanic product once used by the ancient Mexicans forspear-heads, arro
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