SECOND EDITION-JUST PUBLISHED. 



The Mound Builders: 



Being an account of a remarkable people which once inhabited 



the valleys of the ohio and mississippi; together with 



an investigation into the 



ARCHEOLOGY OF BUTLER COUNTY, 0, 



By J. P. Maclean, 



President of the "Geological and Archxological Society of Butler 

 County, Ohio," and Author of "A Manual of the An- 

 tiquity of Man." "Mastodon, Mammoth and Man," Etc. 



12 mo. Cloth, $1.50. 



Printed on superior paper, elegantly bound in beveled boards, 

 and illustrated with over one hundred engravings of mounds, 

 enclosures, implements, etc., and accompanied by a map 

 showing the location of all the earth-works in Butler County. 



The work gives a full account of all that is known concern- 

 ing that people who built the stupendous monuments found 

 in the valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi. It treats fully the 

 important questions, such as, Works of Defense, Sacred En- 

 closures, The Five Classes of Mounds, Works of Art, Min- 

 ing, Advancement in the Sciences, Tablets, Frauds Perpe- 

 trated, Civilization, Antiquity, Who were the Mound 

 Builders, What Became of Them, etc., etc., besides record- 

 ing important discoveries never published before, viz., "Ancient 

 Fire-Beds," "The Method of Planning, as Pursued by the 

 pre-Historic Engineers, " &c. 



