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MOUND-BUILDERS

BY

REV. W. J. SMYTH, M.A., B.Sc., Ph.D.

_Pastor of St. Joseph Street Presbyterian Church, Montreal._


PUBLISHED BY REQUEST OF NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY,
TORONTO.


MONTREAL:
GAZETTE PRINTING COMPANY.
APRIL, 1886.




MOUND-BUILDERS

BY REV. WILLIAM J. SMYTH, M.A., B.Sc., Ph.D.


When the early settlers began to pioneer the unbroken forests of North
America, they considered the various Indian tribes to be the true
Aborigines of this continent. But long before