. Book of the Royal blue . lust enier T will always remain aInizzliiiL; problem toarrluei ilnoists how tlieAll Hind Iluilder acconi-I>IisIum1 what he didwith the rude tunlsleft behind as ho was, tmni the stone age. and just beginning;, as a race, which was sufficiently populous to haveoccu])ied all of the arable land in theMiddle West anil have embraced in it^military system all of the commandinghills in what we now call Ohio. Nunc of these works is more puz-zling, nr less known, than the near Glenford, Perry County,Ohio, and within sight of the tracks of. ( KOHT
. Book of the Royal blue . lust enier T will always remain aInizzliiiL; problem toarrluei ilnoists how tlieAll Hind Iluilder acconi-I>IisIum1 what he didwith the rude tunlsleft behind as ho was, tmni the stone age. and just beginning;, as a race, which was sufficiently populous to haveoccu])ied all of the arable land in theMiddle West anil have embraced in it^military system all of the commandinghills in what we now call Ohio. Nunc of these works is more puz-zling, nr less known, than the near Glenford, Perry County,Ohio, and within sight of the tracks of. ( KOHT to ex])eriment w itii the metals, he left be-hind him .Mime w(lrk^ in ( )hio that arehardly e-\]ilainahle in our limited knowl-edge <if the race—a race, 1)\ the wav. the & ( )hio Railway, Shaw-nee division. None is less knnwn nrless exploited than these works. YetthcA raise even in the h\\ mind the THE MOUND BUILDERS OF OHIO 3 i|uestipn of how the wiirk was dniie bva Iace of men with only a nnhnu-ntaryknowledge of metallurgy. That the Miiind lUiilder might lia\eerected the great ninnnds, which still,after the erosion If the ages, containihiinsands of tC)ns of earth and rockwith his flint hoes, horn-shod digyinij fense: that he did that wnrk with thellint, gneiss, granite, bone and slateten lis \vith which we are familiar, isiusi a little beyond the scope of theI irdinary imaginatinn. The (ilenford works are. to the lay-mind at least, the more interesting ofthose in ()hiii. Imposing as thev are.
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