520 TRAVELS IN NORTH AMERICA. 
at Taenia* where were feveral inconfiderable co- 
nical mountains ; and but one inftanceof the te- 
tragon terraces, which was at the Apalachucla 
old town, on the Weft banks of that river : here 
were yet remaining confpicuous monuments, as 
vaft four fquare terraces, chunk yards, &;c. } almoft 
equalling thofe eminent ones at the Oakmulge 
fields ; but no high conical mounts. Thofe In- 
dians have a tradition that thefe remains are the 
ruins of an ancient Indian town and fortrefs. I 
was not in the interior parts of the Chacftaw ter- 
ritories, and therefore am ignorant whether there 
are any mounts or monuments there. 
To conclude this fubje<ft concerning the 
monuments of the Americans, I deem it necelfary 
to obferve as my opinion, that none of them 
that I have feen difcover the leaft iigns of the 
arts, fciences, or architecture of the Europeans 
or other inhabitants of the old world ; yet evi- 
dently betray every fign or mark of the rnoft 
diftant antiquity. 
I N DEI. 
