Note 1797 — Chapter VI · (continued 3)
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Cf. for garden beds Amer. Antiquarian, i. and vii.; Foster, 155; Bela Hubbard’s Memorials of a half century (Detroit). Shaler (Kentucky, 46) surmises that it was the buffalo coming into the Ohio Valley, and affording food without labor, that debased the moundbuilders to hunters.