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Title: The Ancient Monuments of North and South America, 2nd ed.

Author: C. S. Rafinesque

Release Date: July 8, 2009 [EBook #29350]

Language: English

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THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS

OF

NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA.

SECOND EDITION,

Corrected, enlarged and with some additions,

BY C. S. RAFINESQUE, A. M.--Ph. D.

_Professor of Historical and Natural Sciences, Member of many Learned
Societies in Philadelphia, New York, Lexington, Cincinnatti,[TN-1]
Nashville, Paris, Bordeaux, Brussels, Bonn, Vienna, Zurich, Naples &c,
the American Antiquarian Society, the Northern Antiquarian Society of
Copenhagen &c._

The massive ruins the arts and skill unfold
Of busy workers, and their styles reveal,
The objects and designs of such devisers:
In silent voices they speak, to thinking minds
They teach, who were the human throngs that left
Uplifted marks for witness of past ages.

_PHILADELPHIA_

1838.

Printed for the Author.

NOTICE.

This Essay or Introduction to my Researches on the Antiquities and
Monuments of North and South America, was printed in September 1838 in
the first Number of the American Museum of Baltimore, a literary monthly
periodical undertaken by Messrs. Brooks and Snodgrass, as a new series
of the North American Quarterly Magazine. Being printed in a hurry and
at a dis