Excerpt from Traditions of De-Coo-Dah, and Antiquarian Researches From looking at these relics with silent wonderment, and regard ing them as entirely inexplicable antiquarians have begun to investi gate more closely the plans Of their formation, and gradually find evidences that indicate their design, and explain their origin. But as in the Egyptian hieroglyphics, a keystone and a Champollion were needed to Open to the eyes of the world the stories of the Rameses, so there is yet needed in this country a key to the history which the mound-builders have left recorded in their works. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.