le subject.

Therefore I have prepared this work for publication, believing it will
be acceptable to many who are not now much acquainted with the remains
of Ancient America, and that some who read it may be induced to study
the but as Ancient America covers all time previous to the discovery by
Columbus, they may not be deemed out of place. Materials for the paper
on "Antiquities of the Pacific Islands" came to me from the Pacific
World while I was preparing the others. The discovery of the Pacific is
so intimately connected with the discovery of America, that this paper
would not be out of place even if the Mexican and Peruvian traditions
did not mention that a foreign people communicated with the western
coast of America in very ancient times.

WORCESTER, MASS., _November_, 1871.

CONTENTS.

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I. ANCIENT AMERICA.--THE MOUND-BUILDERS 13
Works of the Mound-Builders 14
Extent of their Settlements 31
Their Civilization 33
Their Ancient Mining Works 43

II. ANTIQUITY OF THE MOUND-BUILDERS 47
How long were they here? 51

III. WHO WERE THE MOUND-BUILDERS? 57
Not Ancestors of the Wild Indians 58
Brereton's Story 62
American Ethnology 65
Who the Mound-Builders were 70

IV. MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA 76
Their Northern Remains 77
The "Seven Cities of Cevola" 85
Central Mexico 89
The great Ruins at the South 93

V. MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA 103
Palenque 104
Copan and Quiragua[TN-1] 111
Mitla 117
An Astronomical Monument 122
Ruins farther South 123
The Ruins in Yucatan