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Excerpt from Prehistoric Man, Vol. 2 of 2: Researches Into the Origin of Civilization in the Old and the New World
So far as we can now infer from the evidence fur nished by native arts and relies connected with the use of the tobacco-plant, it seems to have been as familiar to most of the ancient tribes of the North-west, and the aborigines of the Canadian forests, as to those of the American tropics, of which the N wotiana tabacum is believed to be a native. No such remarkable deposi tories indeed have been found to the north of the great chain of lakes as those disclosed to the explorers of the tumuli of Mound City, in the Scioto Valley; but even now the tobacco-pipe monopolizes the ingenious art of many of the wild forest-tribes of the continent, and some of their most curious legends and supersti tions are connected with the favourite national imple ment. Among them it 1etains the dignity of a time honoured institution, the sacredness of which still survives with much of its ancient force and to this accordingly the student of America's primeval anti quitica is justified in turning, as an important link connecting the present with that ancient past. -'hen referring to the miniature sculptures procured from the mounds of the Ohio and Scioto valleys, Messrs. Squier and Davis remark From the appearance of these relics it is fairly inferable that among the mound-builders,1: v1] v.1 1100171: A rts s orgasm 1703's.
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