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until every vestige of the body had been burned to ashes—after which, or 
even before the burning, a mound was raised over them as a mark of honor 
and respect. These mounds have yielded a large number of copper and 
stone implements, pipes, fragments of water jars, and other articles usually 
entombed with the remains of the dead. It seems to have been their 
method of cremation; and it must be admitted to be quite as respectable as 
any known form of this strange practice of a large portion of the human race. 
