History of the Catholic church in California . as five hundred and more have been shownto exist in the State of Kentucky alone. In U- (1) The tumuli, in wliat is called the Scioto County, are bothnumerous and interesting. Arch. Amer., p. 176. These tumuli are very common on the Ohio, from its utmostsources to its mouth. Few and small, comparatively, they are foundon the waters of the Monongahela; but increase in number and size aswe descend towards the mouth of the stream at Pittsburgh. Ibid. 3&m mmmmw. Bast hankofttte33 miJes abov-e Ciiicionati. APPENDIX. 295 linois, within a small circuit of
History of the Catholic church in California . as five hundred and more have been shownto exist in the State of Kentucky alone. In U- (1) The tumuli, in wliat is called the Scioto County, are bothnumerous and interesting. Arch. Amer., p. 176. These tumuli are very common on the Ohio, from its utmostsources to its mouth. Few and small, comparatively, they are foundon the waters of the Monongahela; but increase in number and size aswe descend towards the mouth of the stream at Pittsburgh. Ibid. 3&m mmmmw. Bast hankofttte33 miJes abov-e Ciiicionati. APPENDIX. 295 linois, within a small circuit of a few miles, onehundred and fifty have been erected. They areof various magaitudes, shapes, and altitudes, vary-ing in circumference from twenty to two thousandfour hundred feet and upwards at the base. Someof them, in the shape of truncated pyramids, areconstructed upon artificially formed terraces oftwo and more stages. The fact of their beingfound to contain human remains leaves very littledoubt as to the purpose for which they wereerected. Those on the Muskingum were formedof clay, with a foundation of brick, a circumstancefrom which the semi-civilized condition of the peo-ple may be inferred. In some of them pieces ofsilver, copper, oxide of iron, arrow-heads and mir-rors of mica have been found. At Cincinnati amound of this kind, eight feet high, sixty broadand six hundred and twenty long, was found, uponexamination, to contain, besides human bones,pieces of jasper, crystal, coal, carved vases, beads,lead, copper, plates of mica, m
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