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Excerpt from The American Antiquarian, 1878: A Quarterly Journal Devoted to Early American History, Ethnology and Archaeology
The pyramid thus constructed has its base on the broad line of the arctic ice fields, and lifts its summit into the equatorial sunlight, but has for its different steps not only the varieties of soil and climate but the very zones themselves. The suc cessive races that inhabit its terraces corresponding also with the fauna and ?ora of each region, thus making it, indeed, a pyramid of life which embraces the whole continent in its magnificent dimensions. But the pyramid is in ruins, and sad to state, the more advanced is now thrown down, and each lower stage shows the marks of decay, and only the rudest and lowest types survive.
The imperishable material is soonest destroyed while the perishable abides. The sculptured stone lies deserted and cast from the summit, but the fragmentary shell and earth and wood and bark are still continued; each higher cultivation having soonest passed away, but the wilder, savage life and lower state of society proving the most enduring.
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