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SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE.VOL. I.ANCIENT MONUMENTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY.

Ancient Works, Marietta, Ohio.
SMITHSONIANCONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE.
VOL. I.
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EVERY MAN IS A VALUABLE MEMBER OF SOCIETY, WHO, BY HISOBSERVATIONS, RESEARCHES, AND EXPERIMENTS, PROCURESKNOWLEDGE FOR MEN.—SMITHSON.
CITY OF WASHINGTON:
PUBLISHED BY THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
MDCCCXLVIII.
PRINTED BY EDWARD O. JENKINS,
114 Nassau street, New York.
FROM THE SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE.
ANCIENT MONUMENTSOFTHE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY.
BYE. G. SQUIER, A.M., AND E. H. DAVIS, M.D.
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EVERY MAN IS A VALUABLE MEMBER OF SOCIETY, WHO, BY HISOBSERVATIONS, RESEARCHES, AND EXPERIMENTS, PROCURESKNOWLEDGE FOR MEN.—SMITHSON.
PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHORS.
NEW-YORK:BARTLETT & WELFORD, 7 ASTOR HOUSE.CINCINNATI:J. A. & U. P. JAMES, WALNUT STREET.MDCCCXLVIII.
PRINTED BY EDWARD O. JENKINS,
114 Nassau street, New York.

ADVERTISEMENT.

This volume is intended to form the first of a series of volumes, consisting oforiginal memoirs on different branches of knowledge published at the expense, andunder the direction of the Smithsonian Institution. The publication of this seriesforms part of a general plan adopted for carrying into effect the benevolent intentionsofJAMESSMITHSON, Esq., of England. This gentleman left his property intrust to the United States of America, to found at Washington an institution whichshould bear his own name, and have for its objects “the increase and diffusion ofknowledge among men.” This trust was accepted by the Government of theUnited States, and an Act of Congress was passed August 10th, 1846, constitutingthe President and the other principal executive officers of the general government,the Chief Justice o

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