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mound, through all its modifications, until we chap. 
arrive at the most artificial pyramidal heap ; » - v .^ 
something after the manner represented by the 
following sketch. 
Priiiieral Moun<l. 
Pyramid of Saccira. 
Pyramid of Dj'iza. 
The same rule will apply to similar monuments 
in America, which have been held sacred among 
the inhabitants of that great continent from the 
earliest periods of their history. In fact, the 
Scythian Mound, the Tartar Tcpt, the Teutonic 
Barrow, and the Celtic Cairn, do all of them 
preserve a monumental form which was more 
antiently in use than that of a Pyramid, because 
it is less artificial ; and a proof of its alleged 
antiquity may be deduced from the mere cir- 
cumstance of its association with the Pyramids 
