Essentials of United States history . d its western shores, and mighty rivers with far-reaching branches connected north with south, and east withwest. The action of rain and snow, of frost and ice, and thedecay of vegetation had made a soil of marvelous the ground were vast treasures of gold and silver, ofiron and copper, and unmeasured fields of coal. But no onein all this great territory understood the advantage of river andseas; no one realized that the soil could produce more than a l 2 ESSENTIALS OF UNITED STATES HISTORY bare subsistence; and few could have made use of th
Essentials of United States history . d its western shores, and mighty rivers with far-reaching branches connected north with south, and east withwest. The action of rain and snow, of frost and ice, and thedecay of vegetation had made a soil of marvelous the ground were vast treasures of gold and silver, ofiron and copper, and unmeasured fields of coal. But no onein all this great territory understood the advantage of river andseas; no one realized that the soil could produce more than a l 2 ESSENTIALS OF UNITED STATES HISTORY bare subsistence; and few could have made use of the minerals,even if they had known how to take them from the ground. 2. The Inhabitants. — Yet a people roamed through theforests, hunted on the prairies, and made homes for themselves in the cliffs of the West. They weredivided into manytribes and spokedifferent dialects,but they all be-longed to one raceof men and theywere all barbari-ans. Their com-plexion was a darkreddish browncolor; their cheekbones were highand their hair was. An Indian Wigwam. straight, black, and thin. In summer they wore little or noclothing; in winter they wrapped themselves in the furs ofanimals. As nearly as can be determined, there were in allabout five hundred thousand of these red men within thepresent limits of the United States, which is less than thenumber of inhabitants in the city of Baltimore Homes. — The homes of the red men varied in size and The eastern half of the continent was occupied by three main tribesof Indians. All the region south of the present southern boundary ofNorth Carolina was held by the Maskoki. North of that line the Al-gonquins held all the territory, except the portion which is now New-York State. This latter area was occupied by the strong Five Nations ofthe Iroquois — the Oneidas, Senecas, Cayugas. Onondagas, and the Mo-hawks. The Pequots, Mohegans, Narragansctts, and Wampanoags. withwhom the settlers in New England came in contact, were Algonquin
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