Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . extending, with their attendant avenues,like those near Newark in Ohio, over an area oflittle less than Jbu?^ square miles ! We can findtheir parallels only in the great temples of Abu-ry and Stonehenge in England, and Carnac inBrittany, and associate them with a mysteriousworship of the Sun, or an equally mysteriousSabianism. Within the mounds inclosed inmany of these sacred works we find the altarsupon which glowed their sacrificial fires, andwhere the ancient people offered their propitia-tions to the strange gods of their prim
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . extending, with their attendant avenues,like those near Newark in Ohio, over an area oflittle less than Jbu?^ square miles ! We can findtheir parallels only in the great temples of Abu-ry and Stonehenge in England, and Carnac inBrittany, and associate them with a mysteriousworship of the Sun, or an equally mysteriousSabianism. Within the mounds inclosed inmany of these sacred works we find the altarsupon which glowed their sacrificial fires, andwhere the ancient people offered their propitia-tions to the strange gods of their primitive su-perstition. These altars also furnish us with thetoo unequivocal evidence that the ritual of themound-builders, like that of the Aztecs, was dis-figured by sanguinary observances, and that hu-man sacrifices were not deemed unacceptable tothe divinity of their worship. It is of courseimpossible in this connection to go into the de-tails of the evidence upon this or kindred pointsof interest. These belong to works of a morepurely scientific ANCIENT WORK NEAR PORTSMOUTH, OHIO. INSECTS BELONGING TO THE COTTON PLANT. 37
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