"What place the Mound Builders are entitled to in the world's history, since they have left no relics but mounds of earth, which mounds are probably funeral pyres or places of sepulchre, we can simply conjecture. We believe some rude carvings on slabs have been exhumed at Grand Traverse, Michigan, Davenport, Iowa, and Rockford, Illinois. These carvings may have reference to the sun, moon and stars; we believe the savants favor such an interpretation. As to where he lived, careful geological study of his mound may some day determine. He was a link in the chain of man's existence; tracing it to its source we may discover some hitherto unknown facts regarding man's origin, or the ancient history of America. This continent may have been more intimately connected with Asia than is at present considered.... "Compare the average life of these nations with the age of the Cedar valley; compare historic age with Cedar valley, whose channel has been cut down through the rocks between one and two hundred feet. Look at these old Devonian rocks, with their fossils as fresh as of yesterday. Look at the clay soil that overlies the rocks. Has it been changed in fourteen hundred or in six thousand years? Now look at those mounds that are on the crests of so many ridges, and say how old they are! Forests of giant trees have come and gone over them, how many times? Those mounds were built by the people known as the Mound Builders. What of their life? What of their age? What of their history? We have the mounds, and substantially the mounds only. But these mounds are an interesting study of themselves. We have not observed these mounds only in the valley of the Cedar river, above and below Cedar Rapids; our observations find them in positions as follows: "LOCATION OF MOUNDS NEAR CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA Number of No. Location Sec. Twp. Range Mounds 1 N. W. 1/4 S. W. 1/4 35 83 7 11 2 S. 1/2 S. E. 1/4 16 83 7 14 3 S. 1/2 N. W. 1/4 16 83 7 11 4 N. W. 1/4 N. E. 1/4 17 83 7 3 5 N. 1/2 N. W. 1/4 20 83 7 11 6 E. 1/2 18 83 7 11 7 W. 1/2 18 83 7 11 8 N. W. 1/4 N. W. 1/4 24 83 7 12 ------ Total 84