Yet simple nature to his hope has giv'n,
Behind the cloud-topt hill an humbler heav'n;
Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd,
Some happier island in the wat'ry waste;
Where slaves once more their native land behold,
No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold.
To BE, contents his natural desire,
He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire:
But thinks admitted to that equal sky,
His faithful dog shall bear him company.

[6] The author's summary of Indian character is for the most
part excellent, and in accord with more recent conclusions. See
Chap. I. of _The Colonies_, in "Epochs of American History"
(Longmans, 1892.)--R. G. T.

[7] Gen. George Rogers Clark, an early and careful observer,
scouted the idea advanced by Noah Webster, in Carey's _American
Museum_, in 1789, that these extraordinary Western military
defenses were the work of De Soto. "As for his being the author
of these fortifications," says Clark, "it is quite out of the
question; they are more numerous than he had men, and many of
them would have required fifty thousand men for their
occupancy."--L. C. D.

[8] Indian traditions, by Cusick.

[9] This description, written by Withers in 1831, still
holds good in the main. The mound, which proves to have been a
burial tumulus, is now surrounded by the little city of
Moundsville, W. Va., and is kept inclosed by the owner as one
of the sights of the place. The writer visited it in May,
1894.--R. G. T.

[10] George Rogers Clark, who was repeatedly at Cahokia
during the period 1778-80, says: "We easily and evidently
traced the town for upwards of five miles in the beautiful
plain below the present town of Kahokia. There could be no
deception here, because the remains of ancient works were
thick--the whole were mounds, etc." Clark's MS. statement;
Schoolcraft's _Indian Tribes_, IV., p. 135.--L. C. D.

[11] This mound was used, at least in part, for burial
purposes. Nearly fifty years ago, when the writer of this note
explored this remarkable artificial elevation of eighty feet in
height, he found in the excavation numerous beads of shell or
bone, or both, ornaments of the dead buried there.--L. C. D.

[12] This proves