THOMAS. ] ETOWAH MOUNDS NOT OF CHEROKEE ORIGIN. 107 
longed to different tribes from those who erected the East Tennessee and 
North Carolina works, and hence, if we are right in regard to the latter, 
the Etowah mounds were not built by the Cherokees. The important 
hearing which this conclusion has upon the question under discussion, 
as the reader will see, is that the mounds immediately outside of the 
territory occupied by the Cherokees were built by a different people 
from those who erected the works in that territory. Thus we see that, 
judging by the mounds alone, immediately upon passing outside the 
Cherokee country we encounter a different type of works. This fact, 
therefore, when taken in connection with the other evidence adduced, 
becomes strongly corroborative of the view that the Cherokees were the 
authors of the works in their territory. 
