Publisher's Synopsis
American Antiquities, And Discoveries In The West: Being An Exhibition Of The Evidence That An Ancient Population Of Partiallly Civilized Nations, Differing Entirely From Those Of The Present Indians, Peopled America Many Centuries Before Its Discovery By Columbus, And Inquiries Into Their Origin, With A Copious Description Of Many Of Their Stupendous Works, Now In Ruins; With Conjectures Concerning What May Have Become Of Them; Compiled From Travels, Authentic Sources, And The Researches Of Antiquarian Societies has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
