GLIMPSES OP PRE-HISTORIC TIMES. t>5 



times they came into the great valley from the west. 

 But the Iroquois, who had established themselves on 

 the head waters of the chief rivers which have their 

 rise to the south of the great lakes, combined with the 

 Delaware or Lenape nation to crush the power of that 

 ancient people of the valley, and the surviving rem- 

 nant of the decimated Alleghans were driven down the 

 Mississippi, and their name blotted out from the roll 

 of nations. The very name of the Ohio is of Iroquois 

 origin, and given to the river of the Alleghans by 

 their ruthless conquerors. The Susquehannocks, who 

 are believed to be of the same ancient lineage, excited 

 the ire of the dominant nation, and were in like 

 manner extirpated. At a later date the Delawares 

 fell under their ban, and the remnant of that proud 

 nation, quitting for ever the shores of the noble river 

 which perpetuates their name, retraced their steps into 

 the unknown west/' Three hundred years of European 

 colonisation and warfare have brought the same fate 

 on the conquering Iroquois themselves, whose small 

 remnants exist in a few scattered settlements, fading 

 away and mingling with the pale faces, and of no 

 political importance among the strange people who 

 have usurped that heritage which they had wrested 

 from others. 



Thus we find in America the Europeans displacing 

 in historic times Indians who had themselves not long 

 before displaced others, and these last retaining the 

 clear tradition of those they had displaced at a still 

 earlier time. The Alleghans are represented only by 



