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attributed most of the iiiouuils Dfeasteiu Tennessee and western North Carolina; it 

 also renders it probable that they were the antliors of most of the ancient works of 

 tlie Kanawha valley in West Virginia. There are also strong indieations that the 

 Tallegwi of tradition were Cherokees and the anthors of some of the jjriucipal works 

 of Ohio. The proof is e()nally conclusive that to the Shawnees are to bo attributed 

 the box-shaped stone graves, and the mounds and otlier works directly connected with 

 them, in the region south of the Ohio, i'S])ecially those works of Kentucky, Tennessee, 

 and northern Georgia, and possibly also some of the nmunds and stone graves in the 

 vicinity of Cincinnati. The stone graves in tlie valley of tlie Delaware and most of 

 those in Ohio are attribntal>le to theDelawares. There are snfficient reasons for be- 

 lieving that the ancient works in northern Mississippi were built chiefly by the 

 Chickasaws, and those in the region of Flint Kiver, southern Georgia, by the Uchees, 

 and that a large portion of those of the Gulf states were built by the Muskokee 

 tribes. 



(10) The testimony of the mounds is very decidedly against the theory that the 

 mound-builders were Mayas or Mexicans who were driven out of this region by the 

 jiressure of Indian hordes and migrated to the valley of Auahuac or j)lains of Yuca- 

 tan. It is also as decidedly against Morgan's theory that they were related to the 

 Pueblo tribes of New Mexico. It likewise gives a decided negative to the snggestiou 

 that the builders of the Ohio works were pushed sonth into the Gulf states and incor- 

 porated into tlie Muskokee group. 



(11) Although much the larger portion of the ancient monnmeuts of onr country 

 belong to prehistoric times, and some of them, possibly, to the distant past, yet the 

 evidence of coutaet with European civilization is found in so manj' mounds where it 

 can not be attributed to intrusive burial and in such widely separated localities, 

 that it must be conceded that many of them were built subsequent to the discovery 

 of the continent by Europeans. 



