. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . -Hf-fW FORTIFIED MANDAN VILLAGE. i6 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. of Neuwiecl; in other respects the two villages are almostduplicates. To see how they may have looked when occu-pied, we may compare them with a representation of a vil-lage of the Onondagas, attacked by Champlain in 1615. This. FORTIFIED ONONDAGA VILLAGE. wood-cut is reproduced from one in the Documentary His-tory of New York. It is clear that the Mound-builders hadmuch in common with those well-known tribes of Indians theMa


. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . -Hf-fW FORTIFIED MANDAN VILLAGE. i6 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. of Neuwiecl; in other respects the two villages are almostduplicates. To see how they may have looked when occu-pied, we may compare them with a representation of a vil-lage of the Onondagas, attacked by Champlain in 1615. This. FORTIFIED ONONDAGA VILLAGE. wood-cut is reproduced from one in the Documentary His-tory of New York. It is clear that the Mound-builders hadmuch in common with those well-known tribes of Indians theMandans and Onondagas, in their way of placing and pro-tecting their houses; and another comparison has lately been THE FIRST AMERICANS. 17 made which links their works on the other side with the NewMexican pueblos. Mr. Morgan has caused to be prepareda conjectural restoration of the High Bank mounds in RossCounty, Ohio, on the theory that in that instance the housesof the inhabitants were Long Houses in structure, and werebuilt for defensive purposes on top of the embankment. Thismakes the villages into pueblos, and Mr. Morgan thereforebaptizes the settlement anew with the name of High BankPueblo. A mere glance at his restoration will show how


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