Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-09-25
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The question has been asked for cen.
turies who built the moundsg Wher
did they ltve2 Where did the builders
come from? Where did they go to-
What were the mounds built for, and
how long have they been builti Il is
right to ask questions about what we
do not know, and about what we wish
to learn. bat the answer to all these
questions, except their duration is no
longer left, for future generations.
Vino has ever read of the wonderful
Pyramids of Egypt who did not be-
come fascinated with those stupenduous
works of human skill and ingenuity,
and sigh for more light than tradition
and history can give2 Who has not
eagerly devoured every book and Inc
and account OF returning travellers
from that ancient land and found out
the more he hears, the less he is salts.
fled; because the flowing years bring
to him no certain knowledge of, by
whom, when, and for what purposes
those huge monuments cf human
energy were erected? The historian
tells us that the same race of people,
who built the Pyramids, built these
mounds that spread all over North
America. This may be true, but no
historian has ever produced known
fact to prove his assertion. All that
history has sad on these two topics
simply amounts to this: They do not
know who built the Pyramids, they do
not know who built the mounds:
therefore the pyramid and mound bull
ders were the same race of people
The logic is not mine Before / am
through with these lines l will show
that the pyramid builders did not
build the mounds, that no other race
of people built them, and more, that
they were not built at all. This may
appear bold in the fsce of all that has
been said and written on this interest
ing topic. The theory is this, that an
early period after deluge, people of
the East enligr,ted with their focks
and herds west, sattled in Egypt, and
subdued its inhabitants, formed king
dom and reignea for long period of
time, during which they built cities
and, among other works built the Pyr-
amids, made the Sphinx and did other
works which have been entirely lost,
or are still unearthed, and that after a
long reign, they were oyerpowered BY
those whom they had conquered and
driven from the land Because their
wealth consisted in their herds and |
focks and because they were superior
IN governing, they were called shep- |
herd kings, and are so known in his
tory, Being from Egypt, they took a
northeast course across the continent |
Of Asia and in due time arrived on the |
west shore of Behring Strait, crossed |
over by soma means into America,
gradually travelled south and ultimately |
spread over all of North America, into |
and perhaps, passed finally in
to South America. That all along |
this line of march and settlement,
which took ages and generations, they
bulltstone walls, pyramids, and mounds
Of earth and III America having lest
much Of their former skill and unable
to frame suitable tools, ceased to work
much in stone, and hence built mounds, |
which we finds spread more or less all |
over the continent. This may be true
in part of that ancient people, and this
may be the true theory Of the peopling
Of America, bat it is no solution of |
how the mounds came about. The his |
torian has told us who built these
but has failed to tell us what |
they were built for or at least has failed |
to furnish single known fact to cor
roborate his assertion. True some say
for forts, or places of refuge, some for
homes, some for retreats from high |
water, some for affairs and SO on, but |
where is known fact In connection
with these mounds that tends in the |
least to verify a single assertion above.
IF built for Notifications, or places of |
refuge, who were those people at war
with. History says the same race in
habited the whole of the land, and we
might all Bsheve it from the similarity
Of these mounds, and also that these
people are numerous, from the count
less mum bers of these little hills, and |
we might add from all appearance that
they had an abundance of cheap labor.
IF built for homes, would there not be |
some found upon mountain sides and
plateaus as rude nations usually live
among the hills and mountains. If /
built as places of safety from high wa
ter. where did the water come from and
where did it 90 to? And would not
the water that would drive them to
these retreats be likely. sometimes, to
overflow the whole surface and drown |
the whole popnlation2 These mounds
are usually found on planes and level
lands and the water would overflow
them very deep sometimes. Besides
what would the people subsist upon
while standing upon the mounds wait
ing for the waters to subdue! They |
would collect in these places in haste
md hardly bring much to eat with |
them. The overflow that would take
place would likely destroy their crops
also. The MOUNDS are too low fer
places of refuge from high water and |
barafora ,va hazard nothing in savin6 |