CHAPTER IX.. Houses of the Mound-Builders.

HOUSES OF THE MOUND-BUILDERS.

Area of their occupation--Their condition that of Village Indians-- Probably immigrants from New Mexico--Character of their earthworks-- Embankments enclosing squares--Probable sites of their houses-- Adapted, as elevated platforms, to Long Houses--High bank works-- Capacity of embankments--Conjectural restoration of the pueblo-- Other embankments--Their probable uses--Artificial clay beds under grave-mounds--Probably used for cremation of chiefs--Probable numbers of the Mound Builders--Failure of attempt to transplant this type of village life to the Ohio Valley--Their withdrawal probably voluntary.