Excerpt from The Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 22 These relics. He thinks, belonged to a race of civilized men who must have disappeared many centuries a 0. To this race he attributes the hieroglyphic characters foun in the limestone bluffs; the remains of cities and fortifications in Florida; the regular banks of' ancient live - oak near them; and the bricks found at Louisville, nineteen feet below the surface, in regular hearths, with the coals of the last domestic fire upon them; these bricks were hard and regular, and longer in proportion to their width than those of the present day. 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.