Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1843-03-21
M. FRANK, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
From the Wisconsin Monthly Magazine. - = 4 - (
ANCIENT REMAINS ANIMAL MOUNDS AND EMB4NK.
MENTS IN WISCONSIN

wishing thai the task would
animation and description of The antiquity the shape
OF tunu orfcatOn &c. that every
of our Territory and which unqueonaby
period past egon
skill in the must greater any
tribes of abongns since the first country
be found onluepnineu.
Mr. Tseyal confined to scone of country
upon both sides of the river five miles in width
length fourteen miles, the midway from
the other and his accompanied
illustration of least figure species artificial
works within limits having
subject of careful observation being part of
twelve months of labor rambling quest taking
figures" be regretted
Mr. T. did extend his the valley
have been found the interesting discovered He has,
however given sketch derived from friend Aztaan,
the branch county Jefferson This
sketch copy entire roughly engraved sufficiently
Of fertilization, which
,d AM written its first discovery by ~ F. Hyer Esq in 1886
Much credit is due Mr. Taylor for the industry with which he
prosecuted illustrations ably
and accurately given, will doubtless afford much aid anquarians
their researches n Indian archaeology.
We have read many ingenious and plausible specuons concerning
probable origin antiquities Central
North developments years upon
the subject American antiquities, thinks following
fairly arranted-that the
America gradually through hemspheres
In the history the civilized nations, distinct oberv
first and existed unbroken tranquility
long and ndtmnate period the second being characterized by
changes brought chiefly the nroads of
The style peculiar
antiquities of the New World, prove that all have proceeded
from branches the human family The relics and monuments
found the United which point their towards Mex
had
fcivizaion-that they agricultural people, lived
cities and under regular forms they
knowledge of the many skilled the
oforcaton unacquainted with astronomy gom
try wo of religion being in
hands priesthood period discovery
and cultivated nations had become within the
United with the exception of the Nachez
the Mississippi who still retained some traces of the clza
Mexican progentOrs These tribes followed but
IN the footsteps pcede the Egyptians
Phencan being branch of that widely extended
by appe.on Of Semitic, which comprised the
and the Arbans well as the inhabitants Of the wide plain
the northern Of the Eupha and Tgr With the
inhabitants the portion of North America lying south of the
States, acquainted Unlike latter region
which prior Of civilized communities became
OF inquiry the ana1uary the former affords the most decisive evil
having by civilized
Mexico Guatemala Spanish invaders
occupied popuous nations distributed regularly organized states,
paakng asocaca and republican forms of
Here ualng the rgnltcence
temples old wod,-a remark equally
applicable roads, aquedu and her public works 1t has been
we'll remarked regards civilization these people decided
ly superior SpanaIs themselves
Pheulcian that the Gu when first known Greeks,
of Bfons earliest
with the Romans. Indeed the knowledge Of the sciences,
aboriginal Americans equacd they did suTas, that Of
conquerors They had mental adapt
ed scientific investigation Their knowledge Of arithmetic and
tronoy both and In architecture and scup
they had made great advances The remains Of aquedu and
They how metals from
images gold and silver, hollow within how to cut
hardest with the greatest nicely how dye cotton
md WOOL to figured SUITS
quoted after auIng researches Of
Stephens ruined cities
in nearly thousand
miles. stupendous city ChChen de-
scrbed Norman, his late work entitled Rambes IN Yucca
torte and edfces dis
South America, adds Were itdemed necessary null
other facts equally extraordinary might be presented IN IL
degree civilization attained 10y this people
Notwithstanding completely deserted,
they the relics people By the Spanish
conquerors temples their original sacred
magnificent palaces without their The
temple city Mexico short period be-
mode pyramids by ToIecs
people preceded by Saniards
all edihce
When the Europeans first arrived probable that
cities consequence revolutions which every
subject had already been deserted perhaps for IS how
beyond doubt that the of the present Indians &C.
that the authors the existing anu
ties indicative Of comparatively hgh of civilization In view Of
these facts the relics and the United States
with the unvze condition when first
discovered Europeans viii the excite our surprise Like the
middle ages of the old world had it. darker ones
Mr. Sephens recolect glty the opinions
the ANTIQUITIES
advances namely that the ancient cities, which have