and on the Age of the Cascade Mountains. 365 
Views. They have been many of them opened, but nothing 
Indicating artificial origin has ever been found.* Dr. Newberry 
has frankly acknowledged his inability to account for them. 
When T first examined these mounds in 1871, they were to 
me also perfectly inexplicable. But upon subsequent reflec- 
tion, and from what I heard of similar phenomena in portions of 
California, I long ago arrived at the conclusion that they are 
.. * There have been many rumors of the opening of those mounds 
in them of human relies, Only very recently these rumors esarmraeg tae So ie 
as) fi ; 
ing that the road d through Mound Prairie, that 
any relics ot any ioe por ‘let as he could learn, no relics had ever beep found 
' the mounds of Mound Prairie. 
