City and Country at Midsummer--Cosmorama of St. Louis--The American
Bottom--Cahokia Creek--A Pecan Grove--The Ancient Mounds--First
Group--Number--Resemblance--Magnitude--Outline--Railroad to the
Bluffs--Pittsburg--The Prairie--Landscape--The "Cantine
Mounds"--"Monk Hill"--First Impressions--Origin--The
Argument--Workmanship of Man--Reflections suggested--Our
Memory--The Craving of the Heart--The Pyramid-builders--The
Mound-builders--A hopeless Aspiration--"Keep the Soul embalmed" 180