Madison, Dane County and surrounding towns; being a history and guide to places of scenic beauty and historical note .. . ty was for a prolonged term, thousands of yearsago, the abode of a people whose semi-architecturalremains connect them with the civilizations of Aztecsand Toltecs, in Mexico and Central America. TheTeocallis or temples, and the Pueblos or villagehouses, preserved by the more enduring character oftheir materials, in some cases, as at Palenque, Copan,Uxmal, long buried in impassable forests, are thewonder of the explorer; our monuments are only lesscomplete. Where the central
Madison, Dane County and surrounding towns; being a history and guide to places of scenic beauty and historical note .. . ty was for a prolonged term, thousands of yearsago, the abode of a people whose semi-architecturalremains connect them with the civilizations of Aztecsand Toltecs, in Mexico and Central America. TheTeocallis or temples, and the Pueblos or villagehouses, preserved by the more enduring character oftheir materials, in some cases, as at Palenque, Copan,Uxmal, long buried in impassable forests, are thewonder of the explorer; our monuments are only lesscomplete. Where the central building of our StateUniversity stands, was a large mound crowning theeminence, but necessity compelled its removal. Inother supremely beautiful positions, such mounds, allthat remain of more extensive erections, bespeakidentity in taste and judgment between the aboriginaloccupants and ourselves. St. Louis was once calledMound City, because of the large number of emi-nences standing where that city unfolds her vast pro-portions. There are mound cities in many of thestates. Cincinnati, Chicago, Milwaukee, among oth-. HISTORY OF MADISON. 1ST er cities indicate like agreement with tlie buildingof this city upon a spot on which the mound builderscongregated. That fact is repeated in almost everylarge town in the Mississippi valley. Napoleon toldhis soldiery that from the pyramids, four thousandyears looked down upon them; and not forgetting thewords of Fuller, that those structures, doting withage, have forgotten the names of their founders, itseems probable that this continent had an older civili-zation than that of the Ptolemies. Possibly this wasthe first habitable land then connected with Europe andAsia, and the home of a people who never dreamed ofsubmergence by the barbarism, which has omitted topreserve, where it has not expunged their are strange agreements, and variations ho lesscurious, between some of the Egyptian structures andour mounds. Should the sands
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