Note 1735 — Chapter VI · (continued 2)

J. D. Baldwin’s Anc. America (N. Y., 1871). D. Wilson’s Prehistoric Man, i. ch. 10, etc., who holds that “the moundbuilders were greatly more in advance of the Indian hunter than behind the civilized Mexican;” and he claims that the proof deduced from the Indian type of a head discovered in a moundbuilder’s pipe (i. 366) is due to a perverted drawing in Squier and Davis. Short, No. Amer. of Antiq., believed they were of the race later in Anahuac. Gay, Pop. Hist. U. S., i. ch. 2, believes in the theory of a vanished race. In 1775 Adair thought the works indicated a higher military energy than the modern Indian showed.