Identifier: newpopularpictor00sear (find matches)
Title: A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Sears Robert, 1810-1892
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Publisher: United States
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e human being,certainly not a habitation, nor the ves-tige of one, calculated for the residenceof man. He might, indeed, have seenindications that it was not always thus.His eye might have rested on some stu-pendous mound, or lengthened lines oframparts, and traverses of earth, still ofconsiderable elevation, which provedthat the country had once been possessedby a numerous and laborious people.But he v.ould have seen, also, indubitableevidences that centuries had passed awaysince these remains had been occupiedby those for whose use they had beenreared. He concluded that their departuremust have been a matter of necessity ;for no people would willingly haveabandoned such a country, after a longresidence, and the labor they had be-stowed upon it, unless, like the He-brews, they fled from a tyrant, or un-feeling taskmasters. If they had been made to jaeld to amore numerous, or more gallant people,what country had received the fugitives 1and what has become of the conquer- < o aa 5 D
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494 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF OHIO. ors 1 Had they, too, been forced to flybefore a new swarm from some northernor southern hivel What was theirfate 1 and why has so large a portion ofcountry, so beautiful, inviting, abound-ing in all that is desirable, been left tothe wild beasts, or for distant tribes ofsavages to mingle in mortal conflicts I We learn from the extensive country,covered by their remains, that they werea numerous agricultural people, congre-gated in considerable cities, but in pos-session of no domestic animals. Itseems probable, if not certain, that theypossessed a national religion, in thecelebration of which, all that was pom-pous, gorgeous, and imposing, that asemi-barbarous nation could devise, wasbrought into occasional display; thatthere were a numerous priesthood, andaltars, often smoking with hecatombs ofvictims. They had made much prog-ress in the art of building; their habita-tions were probably small, inconvenient,and composed of slight and perishablemat

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