Young folks' history of the United States . VASES FROM THE MOUNDS. mals to help them. They had neither horses nor oxennor carts ; so that all the vast amount of earth requiredfor these mounds must have been carried in basketsor skins; and this shows that their population .<#r\\XN Popuiatioa must have been very nu-merous, or they nevercould have attempted somuch. They mined forcopper near Lake Supe-rior, where their desertedmines may still be one of these minesthere is a mass of copper weighing nearly six tons, partly raised from the bottom, copperand supported on wooden logs, now ne
Young folks' history of the United States . VASES FROM THE MOUNDS. mals to help them. They had neither horses nor oxennor carts ; so that all the vast amount of earth requiredfor these mounds must have been carried in basketsor skins; and this shows that their population .<#r\\XN Popuiatioa must have been very nu-merous, or they nevercould have attempted somuch. They mined forcopper near Lake Supe-rior, where their desertedmines may still be one of these minesthere is a mass of copper weighing nearly six tons, partly raised from the bottom, copperand supported on wooden logs, now nearly decayed. °*^-. ANCIENT MINING SHAFT. XO YOUNG FOLKS UNITED STATES. It was evidently being removed to the top of the mine,nearly thirty feet above; and the stone and coppertools of the miners were found lying about, as if the men had just gone away,rroofs of Now, when did this ancient race of Mound-Builders•ntiquity. jj^^ j Thcrc is not a line of their writing left, so faras is now known; nor is there any distinct traditionabout them. But there is one sure proof that they livedvery long ago. At the mouth of this very mine justdescribed there are trees, nearly four hundred years old,growing on earth that was thrown out in digging themine. Of course, the mine is older than the a mound at Marietta, O., there are trees eight hun-dred years old. The mounds must, of course, be asold as that, and nobody knows how much older. It isvery probable that this mysterious race may have builtthese great works more than a thousand years they It IS vcry natural to ask whether the Mound-Builderstors
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