192 A. Bigelow on Mounds on the Tensaw River. 
These facts, the temptation to a savage people to dwell in the 
midst of so muc 
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a wide and high road is traced into the swamp neatly i0 pelle 
direction of the mounds we have been describing, covered with 
large trees. While we wonder at the taste which led any people 
to locate themselves on these marshes, we wonder equally at the 
evidences of a rather numerous population, which are presen 
as we paddle in a light pirogue along the creeks and ito the 
lakes of the region. ; 
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