New school history of the United States . so employedin the strict language of diplomacy, as in Art. IX. of the Treaty of Ghent. t It was supposed that India had been reached when the New World was discovered. NATIVE INHABITANTS. 9 the ground ; that they came out of a tiole ; that they crawledup by the roots of a grape-vine ; that they fell from the is dark and uncertain. 4. Most of these tribes were rude savages when firstvisited by Europeans. But in Mexico, Central America, andPeru a remarkable degree of civilization had been the native population had regular governmen
New school history of the United States . so employedin the strict language of diplomacy, as in Art. IX. of the Treaty of Ghent. t It was supposed that India had been reached when the New World was discovered. NATIVE INHABITANTS. 9 the ground ; that they came out of a tiole ; that they crawledup by the roots of a grape-vine ; that they fell from the is dark and uncertain. 4. Most of these tribes were rude savages when firstvisited by Europeans. But in Mexico, Central America, andPeru a remarkable degree of civilization had been the native population had regular government, orderlysociety and law^, vast temples, great roads, the habit of culti-vating the soil, and various arts of usefulness or luxury. 5. Traces of early and half-civilized races are scatteredover the continent, and especially in the valleys of the Missis-sippi and its tributary streams. These monuments are of va-rious kinds : pyramids, altars, temples, fortifications, mounds,tombs, earth figures of animals, crosses and crescents, furrowed. GRAVE CREEK MOUND, WEST VIRGINIA.* land, pottery, implements of stone and of copper, and rudesculptures. The great serpent on the Miami is 1,000 feetlong, and is raised five feet above the level of the ground. Itcannot be ascertained when these Mound Builders occu- * This mound is 70 feet in height by 900 feet in circumference. Excavations andexplorations have been made, disclosing vaults, human skeletons, and ornaments. HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. pied the country. It is equally unknown whence they derivedtheir arts. They must have existed at a very remote period,as old forests have grown over the buried remains. THB NORTH AMZRICAN I^TDIANS. 6. The Indians, within the original limits of the UnitedStates, were all savages^ but savage in different degrees. Theysurrounded with constant dangers the new-comers who crossedthe Atlantic to seize upon their lands. They engaged in fre-quent and bloody wars with them. In peace there was alwaysreason t
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