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PATHS OF MOUND-BUILDING INDIANS
with a wall on the upper side." Two miles and a half northeast of Amsterdam.
West Virginia: Indian trail from Grave Creek mound to the lakes, passing over Flint Ridge.[1]
Pike County, Ohio: Ancient works at Piketon, consisting of parallel walls, graded way and mounds.[2]
It is not, however, on this slight evidence of local roadways that one would wish to base belief that the early Indians opened the first land highways in America. It is possible that they had great, graded roads near their towns and no roads elsewhere, but it is hardly conceivable.
We have seen that the mound-building Indians occupied, in many instances, the heads of the lesser streams, and the argument in favor of their having opened the
- ↑ Catalogue of Prehistoric Works East of the Rocky Mountains, p. 177.
- ↑ Atwater, Transactions of the American Antiquarian Society, vol. i. (1820), pp. 193, 194; Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio (1847), p. 413; Squier and Davis's Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, pp. 88–90, fig. 20 and plate xxxi., No. 1, and p. 171, fig. 57, No. 3; MacLean's Mound Builders, pp. 37–38, fig. 4; Shepherd's Antiquities of the State of Ohio, p. 61.
