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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXII (search)
arrant the inference of a high civilization, that has left its abodes or died away,—of an earlier acquaintance with the arts of the Old World. That there have been successive irruptions of rude tribes, may be inferred from the insulated fragments of nations, which are clearly distinguished by their language. The mounds in the valley of the Mississippi have also been used—the smaller ones, perhaps, have been constructed—as burial-places of a race, of which the peculiar ???. C. Warren, in Delafield's Antiquities, 30. Morton, Crania Americ. 228-230. Warren, on the Sensorial and Nervous System, 137, 138 organization, as seen in the broader forehead, the larger facial angle, the less angular figure of the orbits of the eye, the more narrow nose, the less evident projection of the jaws, the smaller dimensions of the palatine fossa, the flattened occiput, bears a surprisingly exact resemblance to that of the race of nobles who sleep in the ancient tombs of Peru. Retaining the general c<