Professor Wyman. — Indian Antiquities. — Concord. — Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson. — Margaret Fuller. — Note upon a visit to Mr. Longfellow. — Saturday Club. — Dinner at Harvard University. — Shell Mounds at Concord and Damariscotta. — Note upon the Ancient Inscription upon the Dighton Rock 19 CHAPTER III. Indian Reservations. — Lake Superior. — Beavers and their works. — The Forest. — Houghton. — Ancient Indian mining pits and trenches. — An Indian battle ground. — The Glacial Drift. — Note regarding the Dauphin 34 CHAPTER IV. ANCIENT INDIAN MOUNDS AND EARTHWORKS IN OHIO. — Earthworks of the Mound Builders and their geographical position. — Miamisburgh Mound. — Grave Creek Mound. — Ages and contents of burial mounds. — Rectangular, circular and octagonal Inclosures near Newark. — Marietta Earthworks. — Discoveries made in a burial mound. — Fortifications near Portsmouth. — Encampments in the valley of the Scioto 55 CHAPTER V. MOUNDS AND EARTHWORKS IN OHIO. — Ancient Fortified Inclosures at Circleville. — Discoveries in a Burial Mound. — Alligator Totem near Newark. — Fort Ancient. — Age of Trees growing upon the Ramparts at Fort Hill. — Traditions. — Geometrical Ground Plans of Indian Inclosures. — Conclusions 79 CHAPTER VI. The burning of the Steamer Stonewall. — Indian Mounds and Earthworks at Cahokia. — Confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri. — Sacs and Foxes. — Education of Indians. — Nauvoo. — Winona. — Sioux Encampment. — Ancient Mounds near St. Paul’s. — The Sioux War in Minnesota. — Note upon the Ogallalas 104 CHAPTER VII. Prairies in Minnesota and Iowa. — Boulders. — Glacial Drift. — Wild Rice. — Snow Storm. — Nebraska. — The Pawnees. — Human Sacrifices. — Note on Indian Customs in War and Cannibalism. — Prairie Fires. — Prairie-Dog Villages. — Rattlesnakes. — Variations in the succession of growths of Trees. — Causes of absence of Trees upon Prairies. — Shoshone Indians on the Western Deserts. — Note upon Ute Indians and Fuegians 124 CHAPTER VIII.