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The purpose of this volume is to give a summary of what is known of American Antiquities, with some thoughts and suggestions relative to their significance. It aims at nothing more. No similar work, I believe, has been published in English or in any other language. What is known of American Archæology is recorded in a great many volumes, English, French, Spanish, and German, each work being confined to some particular department of the subject, or containing only an intelligent traveler's brief sketches of what he saw as he went through some of the districts where the old ruins are found. Many of the more. | Ancient America in Notes on American by John D. Baldwin 1 Ancient America in Notes on American by John D. Baldwin The Project Gutenberg EBook of Ancient America in Notes on American Archaeology by John D. Baldwin This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Ancient America in Notes on American Archaeology Author John D. Baldwin Release Date August 21 2008 EBook 26382 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ANCIENT AMERICA Produced by Julia Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from scans of public domain material produced by Microsoft for their Live Search Books site. Transcriber s Note Ancient America in Notes on American by John D. Baldwin 2 A number of typographical errors and inconsistencies have been maintained in this version of this book. They have been marked with a TN- which refers to a description in the complete list found at the end of the text. Oe ligatures have been expanded. Illustration Fig. at Labna. See p. 144. ANCIENT AMERICA IN NOTES ON AMERICAN ARCHEOLOGY. BY JOHN D. BALDWIN . AUTHOR OF PRE-HISTORIC NATIONS. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. NEW YORK HARPER BROTHERS PUBLISHERS FRANKLIN SQUARE. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1871 by JOHN D. BALDWIN In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. PREFACE. The purpose of this volume is to give a summary of what is known of American Antiquities with some thoughts and suggestions relative to their significance. It aims at nothing more. No similar work I believe has been published in English or in any other language. What is known of American Archeology is recorded in a great many volumes English French Spanish and German each work being confined to some .