. A brief history of the United States . aid to be 10,000of these mounds in Ohio alone. A pecuhar kind of earthworkhas the outline of gigantic menor animals. An embankment inAdams County, Ohio, representsvery accurately a serpent 1000 feetlong. Its body winds with grace-ful curves, and in its wide-extendedjaws lies a figure which the animalseems about to swallow. In Mex-THE SERPENT MOUND. Ico Biid Pcru, stlll morc wonder- ful remains have been discovered. They consist not aloneof defensive works, altars, and monuments, but of idols,ruined temples, aqueducts, bridges, and paved roads. The Mound
. A brief history of the United States . aid to be 10,000of these mounds in Ohio alone. A pecuhar kind of earthworkhas the outline of gigantic menor animals. An embankment inAdams County, Ohio, representsvery accurately a serpent 1000 feetlong. Its body winds with grace-ful curves, and in its wide-extendedjaws lies a figure which the animalseems about to swallow. In Mex-THE SERPENT MOUND. Ico Biid Pcru, stlll morc wonder- ful remains have been discovered. They consist not aloneof defensive works, altars, and monuments, but of idols,ruined temples, aqueducts, bridges, and paved roads. The Mound Builders is the name given to the peoplewho erected the mounds of North America. They seemto have emigrated to Central America, and there to have * It is a singular fact that banks of earth grassed over are more enduring thanany other work of man. The grassy mounds near Nineveh and Babylon haveremained unchanged for centuries. Meantime massive buildings of stone have beenerected, have served long generations, and have crumbled to THE INDIANS. 11
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