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thriving cities, such as Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chillicothe, 

 Columbus, Portsmouth, Vincennes, Marietta, Mondville, etc., 

 while, by Mr. Morgan's own admission, "this very region 

 unoccupied at the time of European discovery, because un- 

 adapted to tribes in the lower status of barbarism." 



If the banks of the Ohio works were the sites of com- 

 munial dwellings, by all analogy, we should find some evi- 

 dence of the fact in the debris. There are no abandoned 

 hearths, charcoal, carbonized bones, broken pottery, in or 

 on these works, while the recent explorations of the pueblos 

 and cliff dwellings reveal immense quantities of these relics 

 there. 



Again, we have positive evidence in the mounds, and in 

 cists beneath the works, that many of these tumuli, and even 

 some of the earth-walls were erected for burial purposes. 



Mr. De Hass, in conclusion, drew attention to the following 

 facts : 



I. Not a single specimen of wrought-stone for building 

 purposes has been discovered within the Mound-Builders' 

 area. 



II. The pottery of the mounds is of the rudest character, 

 while that of the Pueblos and of Mexico is elaborately formed 

 and decorated. It is not probable that a people who have 

 once learned the art of pottery would soon forget it. 



III. The Mexicans understood the art of hardening copper 

 and of making bronze. 



IV. The Mound-Builders dwelt in communities near their 

 mounds and works, as is attested by their camp-sites and 

 cemeteries. 



V. Mounds were primarily designed for burial. 



VI. All mural mounds can be proved to have been for 

 defense, amusement, or religion. 



