46 ANCIENT MONUMENTS. 



in respect to their numbers, that " one scarcely meets with a mountain without 

 them." Precisely similar modes of defence prevailed among the savage South 

 American tribes, who invariably crowned their entrenchments of earth with pali- 

 sades of wood.* 



The traces of ancient fortifications in the northern part of the State of New 

 York, and upon the head waters of the Susquehanna in Pennsylvania, may, it is 

 believed, be referred with entire safety to the same hands with those of the 

 Mississippi valley. It will be seen that they have a close resemblance to those of 

 northern Ohio, both in position and structure. 



* Charlevoix, History of Paraguay, vol. i. p. 156. 



