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less warlike neighbors. Over this whole region may be observed the marks left 

 by the ebb and flow of the tide of conquest, and we may hope, by diligent 

 investigation and study of the relics in which the country so abounds, to con- 

 tribute something towards the unraveling of the series of prehistoric events in 

 America. 



