Madison, Dane County and surrounding towns; being a history and guide to places of scenic beauty and historical note .. . c, showing a figure carvecion silver, bespeaks high civilization. The stone bat-tle axes found at Kenosha; stone hatchets from Cot-tage Grove, from Green Bay, and from our immedi-ate surroundings, are replete with human interest, be-cause full of mystery from an age unknown. Someday we may master the problem which, sphynx like,demands solution, as to the tumuli systematicallyraised, enclosed in mathematical figures and lines of HISTOKT OF MADISON. 197 circumvallation, build
Madison, Dane County and surrounding towns; being a history and guide to places of scenic beauty and historical note .. . c, showing a figure carvecion silver, bespeaks high civilization. The stone bat-tle axes found at Kenosha; stone hatchets from Cot-tage Grove, from Green Bay, and from our immedi-ate surroundings, are replete with human interest, be-cause full of mystery from an age unknown. Someday we may master the problem which, sphynx like,demands solution, as to the tumuli systematicallyraised, enclosed in mathematical figures and lines of HISTOKT OF MADISON. 197 circumvallation, builded by men wlio were conversantwith mining operations, who could procure their owncojjper from the matrix, as well as shape it into artis-tic forms; who wove cloth probably when the lakevillages of Switzerland were first settled; who couldprepare designs in stone and clay, expressing thoughtsthat approach the sublime, and evince a comprehen-sion of the beautiful; yet have fallen below the realmof history, leaving to generations now remotely fol-lowing them, the task to discover Whence camethey ? Whither did they go ?. By the kindness of S. C. Griggs & Co., the wellknown publishers, we present engravings of earth-works and other relics of the Mound Builders fromFosters Pre-Historic Races, a book which shouldbe in the hands of every thoughtful reader. TheMound Builders could not be omitted from our rec-ord, but a complete statement within our limits is im- 198 HISTORY OF MADISON. possible, and it affords us pleasure to refer the stu-dent to the fascinating pages of Foster. The worksat Marietta were examined by Lyell in 1842. Onthat spot Dr. Hildreth saw a tree which showed eighthundred rings of annual growth. Prior to that timePresident Harrison had written a memoir, whichwent to show, that thousands of years must haveelapsed from the first formation of the mound beforesuch growths were possible. Every circumstance con-nected with the mounds points to a remote
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