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North American archæology have all drawn a broad distinction 
between the so-called mound-builder and the Indian: althoug 
in the elaborate monograph of Messrs. Squier and Davis, there is 
much that belongs either in common to the two races, or the 
various relics of both have been mixed up. Even as far east as 
New Jersey, the various forms of relics found in the mounds have 
been discovered except one class of pottery, and possibly the 
“animal” pipes. 
That the two peoples were not the same—that the present red- 
man was not the descendant of the mound-builder, has been and is 
the general opinion, and yet it is difficult, in very many cases, to 
say of many ‘‘finds,” this is mound-builder and this Indian. So 
the precise relation the two peoples bore to each other is as desi- 
rable a problem to solve as to trace out the exact origin of either. 
It was this latter thought especially that has been suggested by 
every few pages of the volume before us. 
The first nine chapters, giving admirable descriptions of the 
various mounds in Georgia, recall the many mounds examined by 
Messrs. Squier and Davis, throughout the Mississippi valley ; 
and we are carried back to the remote time of the occupancy of 
the country by this mysterious people. Mr. Jones, with his de- 
scriptions of the mounds, adds a most admirable account of the 
manners and customs (as they were) of the Indians, but we ask, 
Did they build these mounds? The author says, in this con- 
nection—‘‘In the light of the Spanish narratives, after a careful 
consideration of the relics themselves, and in view of all the facts 
which have thus far been disclosed * * * * we see no good rea- 
son for supposing that these more prominent tumuli and enclo- 
sures may not have been constructed in the olden time by peoples 
akin to and in the main by no means farther advanced in semi- 
civilization than the red-men native àt the dawn of the historic 
period. In a word we do not concur in the opinion, so often ex- 
pressed, that the mound-builders were a race distinct from and 
superior in art, government and religion, to the southern Indians 
of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.” This is something neW 
in the later speculations concerning the American aborigines, 
searcely borne out we think by a careful survey of the antiquities 
of the whole country. Indeed Mr. Jones himself shows that 
mound-building races preceded the Indian, and such passages 4S 
the following frequently occur,—The Creeks did not claim that 
