The world is not how you view it. Q - 15 Feb 2018 - 4:01:38 PM
Raftsman's by S.B. Row Clearfield PA Wednesday January 6, 1858
ANTIQUITIES IN AMERICA
"Strange as it may appear, America abounds in antiquities, so extensive, so beautiful and majestic, as to rival Thebes or Nine-Veh. Ruins of ancient cities, of immense extent; fortifications, mounds and pyramids; temples with walls built of hewn stone showing a refined taste in architecture and adorned with human figures, beautifully executed; large alters ornamented with hieroglyphics, probable giving a record of those who reared them but which no man has been able to decipher; remains of ancient palaces with beautiful specimens of sculpture and painting with many other marks of ancient greatness prove to us that this is not a new world, but that a powerful empire existed at a very remote period of time, teeming with a population highly skilled in arts, and in a state of civilization far beyond anything we have been led to conceive. (Read on).
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/data/batches/pst_lasch_ver01/data/sn85054616/00212477783/1858010601/0119.pdf