Show amedean Amed can atiq antiquities u I 1 tile tiie clr 0 n NT RACES racks burp not much inclined ellred to think thin of a great antiquity as belonging to the inba bitantis of this continent or to value highly the relies relics or of our extinct human humlan raes rile rhe popular contempt for thred indians ludl indi air and abd the tho knowledge that all ali which ean eail be preserved of his tool implements and works of art form but a poor collection of antiquities am arl tn iri part the thle explanation of this indifference then till recently our scholars and div alv divines ivies were unwilling to concede a very great the illi lilt human man race and this bonti continent n t especially laii dail yi was supposed to 1 bo ne inhabited 1 d P by y modern races but the tho idea lias has at 1 leng ieng length fairly dawned on th c cultivated mind throughout heo eee the fie vold void man has b by y nu no means been beeri an inhabitant of this earh merely rely during i tile tite pae pai five or six thousand 1 ye years ar bitt biti on the tho contrary cutrary that he be baay may li haye hayo vee voe exited jated here for the pat fifty or acif thousand years behrs years though rh a modern in the ahe scale seale of 0 geology the lile human heinan ming gis venerable antiquity galt talt by huy buy any historical seale scale ii as 0 u ou on this continent so ancient in geological structure man must have lived for countless agee age hunting with hl hib his flint weapons uhe the mammoth anu aud mast mastodon odou and either using or pursuing the camel long before the gigantic canons were eroded by rushing water through tigh the sie sierras aras or the volcanoes n biad poured their deep floods of lava over the hills and vales of the pacific coast through tigh all countries an intense interest has been awakened in the habits and condition of the prehistoric man libraries of works have accumulated devoted to the most ingenious speculations and ra researches on the antiquities dincov covered in the drift of europe while the whole hypothetical hypothetic Ll spec of the day dax dayon on human ori gin gln in turns on these archaeological discoveries iseo isco verles europe is full ruil inow of the most admirable museum entirely A rely appropriated to othe the different periods of prehistoric human antiquity the ston stone 0 age the iron age the bronte bronze age and sim similar liar ilar divisions tha united states sione slone lias has been comparatively indifferent nt to her own antiquity Mr peabody has left muni munificent ficen ticen endowments abe legitimate purpose bauld seem to io bo be to collect and preserve ame amerlean american rican antiquities 1 s but ne neither ather in salem cai Cat cambridge abridge nor new haven so far as we hear hea r A is 0 there e re any remarkable collect collections lons loni of the wonderful odthe orthe of the extinct naces raees discovered oil on tur our dur own sol soi the remarkable private yate yato collections existing 1 are being ping gm gradually dually ed to europe so that now it ii said bald a who wound know thoroughly what whA american antiquities are mut must visit certain private english collections in provincial lowns towns of great erit hrit britain alif one otle ex alone must be made the smithsonian collection at washington but even this admirable collection is not complete centuries before the red indian appeared on the northern noh nok thern continent a race perhaps of kindred stock of higher civilization civilia aaion dwelt on the western prairies the mound builders as they a are lel iel appropriately c aired called left their remarkable mai mal kable kabie lines of earthworms earthworks earth works wois from the lower MIsAis mississippi sippi to the ohio these structures on which bucce 4 sive fl orr or arlous arious growths haye flourished and died still survive and surprise the stranger by their intricacy akillis skill and the evidences eviden ces ees ervast of vast labor which they display some are temples some burial places some are fortifications some are garden gardens 3 some are re presenta eions ti ons ou on a gigantic scale of the tile forms og of animals and birds for what purpose dose it Is ia difficult to explain hmong among these structures ettres are mounds mound in the form of ef truncated pyramids which seem to bo be the f first suggestions of the pyramidal aud and terraced structures in central america and mexico which per haps formed the highest mat maternal material erial works of this mysterious race they must have conducted an in land commerce commerce over a vast territory and obtained or purchased laica from the north carolina Caro llna lina mountains talus copper from lake superior u obsidian from mexico spee spec ular iron from missouri and salt from michigan artl antl articles clae which the red indians never possessed elc except t by kec hec accident ident they understood a rt cuje je agriculture and find the arts ol 01 wed wea weaving ving and of molding pottery and figures of animals they even at times melted copper and used it in instruments though they never be seem am to have d done on this ihl with iron th the forms of their skulls and the evi evl evidences evidences lences from their arts show a 11 milder and more cultivated race mee than any the whites have ever known north ot dr central america wo vvhs they were whence the came or of what blood or stock fi i hidden in the mists mista of bf a far oar anti antl quit they spread their busy life and left their traces over the whole central west perhaps exl exi existing stin there Rs as long as the anglo saxon race has his existed and then the perished peri perl hed shed their only history bein written on the ground a record obliterated by the growth of forest for tor uncounted stinted centuries but nov partly deciphered by a people 0 9 wl whom lom they never dreamt belon belen evel ever the M ived iced a lo 10 low erand crand more primeval race th a com pan pau pampas lous lons in ID all probability ofilia fossil ani aul animals malsy maisy a race skull skuli are jut being discovered near chi elgo and whose contemporaries their stone implement implements tent 1 ln beneath ath the tho tol toi volcanic carlle de deposits 0 the cierras 11 titis this prehistoric I 1 and man belonged to tribes as low am d as s ane nev the present austra 11 haus habs indeed ofa type typo diore more moro lle lie nearly aly approaching the simian mian st than any hitherto r to discovered tiie tile single except exception lou iou of that thab jr the keander thal skull i 1 tha tho relies reiles and of th these ese vanished races form Amer american icah antiquities sch ties why should be without a of them why will not gomel our liberal liberat citizens confer a lasting 0 benefit on future generations generation s by founding in this metro metropolis poll poil a grand gnand d museum i of american amerlean antiquities nl a permanent pe and ari rang ranged ed collection af f these objects 8 which aro becoming g rarer raier elbr every y day and which future centuries will value valtie beyond all price 0 new yew yufa rimes times 16 tilot 1 |