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Alfred Oscar Coffin. The Origin of the Mound Builders
The Origin of the Mound Builders
Table of Contents
I. The Mound-builders of the Mississippi Valley ──────
II. The Mound-builders in Mexico ──────
III. The Mound-builders in Central America ──────
IV. The Lost Atlantis ──────
V. Deductions ──────
VI. The First Men of America ──────
VII. Conclusion ──────
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Alfred Oscar Coffin
Published by Good Press, 2021
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On the Ohio River, twelve miles from Wheeling, in West Virginia, stands the Grave Creek Mound, seventy feet high and a thousand feet in circumference. This was a signal mound, from the summit of which signal fires could be seen far down the valley, and others transmitted the message in like manner, till it reached Cahokia on the Mississippi.
The growth of civilization has always been along the courses of great rivers—the Nile, Euphrates, Ganges, Hoangho, Danube, the Mississippi and Ohio. The Mound-builders were an agricultural people, for maize has been found in the mounds, and nowhere do we find the mounds where maize will not grow. Where the population of the United States is growing densest every year, there, too, the Mound-builders reached their acme, showing that what we consider natural advantages so did they. Ohio, the second State in the Union, was likewise their capital, with its ten thousand mounds to-day marking the spot where flourished their vanished cities.
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