The history of the state of Indiana : from the earliest explorations by the French to the present time, containing an account of the principal civil, political, and military events, from 1763 to 1897 . PREPARED BY HN MELI5H IN 1817. SMITHS HliTORV OF PREPARED FOR W. H. SMITHS•HISTORY OF INDIANA. CHAPTER ARCHEOLOGY. When man first appeared on the soil of America is un-known; it is lost in the misty ages of the past, but certainit is that for thousands of years before the age of history,man dwelt in America. When the Europeans first landedon the American coast, they found in the u
The history of the state of Indiana : from the earliest explorations by the French to the present time, containing an account of the principal civil, political, and military events, from 1763 to 1897 . PREPARED BY HN MELI5H IN 1817. SMITHS HliTORV OF PREPARED FOR W. H. SMITHS•HISTORY OF INDIANA. CHAPTER ARCHEOLOGY. When man first appeared on the soil of America is un-known; it is lost in the misty ages of the past, but certainit is that for thousands of years before the age of history,man dwelt in America. When the Europeans first landedon the American coast, they found in the unknown world,a race of people who had traditions running back for manycenturies. So long had they been here that they had lostall knowledge or tradition from whence they came. It wasa race different in almost every respect from any of theother known races of the world. But prior to their time,running back for many ages, there had been another racewhich had peopled the continent and governed it for cen-turies and possibly for thousands of years, but that race haddisappeared so long before the Indians took possession, thatthe Red Man had no tradition of theiu. Whether this racewas the predecessor or the successor of still another racewhich has left evi
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