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- a few more years and the bones intombed in these hills of clay will have returned to their mother dust - in which case the story will be lost forever, unless the present generation be industrious. | - a few more years and the bones intombed in these hills of clay will have returned to their mother dust - in which case the story will be lost forever, unless the present generation be industrious. | ||
I have noticed, with some amnisty, for wounds on the crania I have disintered and in one instance only did I discover any mark of the sort. This is almost a circular cicatrix considerably indented, and situated on the superior aspect of the frontal bone. It affords me no clue to the weapons with which these people fought or defended themselves. Its is amusing however to contemplate the tissue of circumstances which has been developed in relation to | I have noticed, with some [[amnisty anxiety?]], for wounds on the crania I have disintered and in one instance only did I discover any mark of the sort. This is almost a circular cicatrix considerably indented, and situated on the superior aspect of the frontal bone. It affords me no clue to the weapons with which these people fought or defended themselves. Its is amusing however to contemplate the tissue of circumstances which has been developed in relation to this Indian head, If an Indian one it be. The mind is irrisistably forced into association with his family and friends who surrounded him, in his day, and marked with painful solicitude the angry threatnings of this dangerous wound. A thousand years may have intervened and the head of this premeval man is again exposed to the light of [[Human?]] and the accident so indelibly registered on his skull, is once more a subject of interest. | ||
The female crania in both the Va. Ohio & Miss Mounds very much resemble the Mummy skulls I have seen from Egypt and from the uncommon care resorted to for the preservation of their mortal remains, it would seem fair to infer that something like Egyptian opinions were held by these people relative to the connexion between the soul and body. To attach insight to such an idea as this would be giving a high antiquity to the N. American mounds. The superstitions [[attended?]] to prevailed on the Nile three thousand years ago and not since. Dr. Robertson, it will be recollected advanced the idea that a land communication once existed between Africa & America which has been destroyed by the attrition of the waters.....as I am now notising are something in .....theory, which no doubt is entirely his own. | |||
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- a few more years and the bones intombed in these hills of clay will have returned to their mother dust - in which case the story will be lost forever, unless the present generation be industrious.
I have noticed, with some amnisty anxiety?, for wounds on the crania I have disintered and in one instance only did I discover any mark of the sort. This is almost a circular cicatrix considerably indented, and situated on the superior aspect of the frontal bone. It affords me no clue to the weapons with which these people fought or defended themselves. Its is amusing however to contemplate the tissue of circumstances which has been developed in relation to this Indian head, If an Indian one it be. The mind is irrisistably forced into association with his family and friends who surrounded him, in his day, and marked with painful solicitude the angry threatnings of this dangerous wound. A thousand years may have intervened and the head of this premeval man is again exposed to the light of Human? and the accident so indelibly registered on his skull, is once more a subject of interest.
The female crania in both the Va. Ohio & Miss Mounds very much resemble the Mummy skulls I have seen from Egypt and from the uncommon care resorted to for the preservation of their mortal remains, it would seem fair to infer that something like Egyptian opinions were held by these people relative to the connexion between the soul and body. To attach insight to such an idea as this would be giving a high antiquity to the N. American mounds. The superstitions attended? to prevailed on the Nile three thousand years ago and not since. Dr. Robertson, it will be recollected advanced the idea that a land communication once existed between Africa & America which has been destroyed by the attrition of the waters.....as I am now notising are something in .....theory, which no doubt is entirely his own.