ORIGIN OF TtIE



" I believre we may confident



hypotheses which at
are incorrect and ft
present number of th
antiquity; having fi
a long time before ti
ly their form and mi
pean forti cations, ei
  4I t is generally cl
the [adians. Until
their national vanity
cans attracted to thb
fabulous account of
the present day did
their origin. They
traditions, and were
quity.



ttribute th
inciful.
ie works.
tom every
te discove
anier are



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loSe
1st
2n
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pronounce, that all the
> works to Europeans,
. Our account of the
d. Our account of their
)pearallce, been erected
of America.; and final-
ally variant florom E1uro-



[ther in ancient or modern times.
lear that they were not the work of
the Senecas, who are renowvned for
, had seen the attention of the Anmeri
ese erections, and had invented the
which I have spoken, the Indians of
not pretend to lnow any thing abiout
were beyond the reach of all their
lost in the abyss of unexplor, d antis



  "The erection of such prodig'ious works must have
been the result of labour, fir beyond the patience and
perseverance of our Indians; and the forms and matee
rials are entirely different from those which they are
known to make. These earthern walls, it is supposed,
will retain their original form much longer than those
constructed with brick and stone. They have undoubt-
edly been greatly diminished by the washing away of
the earth, the filling up of the interior, and the accumu-
lation of fresh soil: vet their firmness and solidity mdi-



cate them to be the work
this, that the Indians have
fortifying by entrenchmer
were protected by palisade
defence against Indian we(
Hochelaga, nowVr Montreal,
of the Iroquois, or Hurons
It was encompassed with td
which was one entrance, E
bars. On the inside was e
were ascents by ladders;



of some remote ave. Add to
never practised the mode of
its. Their villages or castles
Us; which afforded a sufficient
ipons. When Cartier went to
in 1535 he discovered a town
containing about fifty huts.
wree lines of palisades, through
well secured with stakes and
a rampart of timber, to which
and heaps of stones were laid



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