Foot-prints of vanished races in the Mississippi valley : being an account of some of the monuments and relics of pre-historic races scattered over its surface, with suggestions as to their origin and uses

Alban Jasper Conant

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her history ; and we may write once moreauthenticate "Ilium est" "for Ilium fuit." farAnd what is most surprising of all, down beneath the level of the the heroes whose names Homer has givenground once trod by to —the explorer has found the ruins of another city and heimmortality, whichstill another below it—concerning the poet seems to havethinks Among those deposits of an age so remote, wereheard no tradition. and bronze and precious metals, skillfully wrought, giv-articles of stone of the existence of a people whose knowledge, attainments,ingevidence advance of those of the more ancientand social condition were far in and bronze—a civilization which could only have beenperiods of stone the slow growth of centuries.realized by land, immortalnot alone upon that glorious made by the fieryBut sougs, has a resurrection morning dawned,energy of Homer's matchless with their hieroglyphic annals, hoary with age but.nor Egypt andAssyria ; unknown in classic story, and the islands of the sea, areother lands, The explorers of to-day aredivine their long-forgotten dead.up impassable barriers of the remoter ages ofbreakino- down the hitherto we catch glimpses of the life and customs, andantiquity ; here and tjiere times.

Sujets

• Mississippi embayment
• Antiquities
• Megapode

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 8
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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