The Antiquity of Monk Mound--Primitive Magnitude--Fortifications
of the Revolution--The Ancient Population--Two Cities--Design
of the Mounds--The "Cantine Mounds"--Number--Size--Position--
Outline--Features of Monk Mound--View from the Summit--Prairie--
Lakes--Groves--Bluffs--Cantine Creek--St. Louis in distance--
Neighbouring Earth-heaps--The Well--Interior of the Mound--
The Monastery of La Trappe--Abbé Armand Rance--The Vows--A
Quotation--Reign of Terror--Immigration of the Trappists--
Their Buildings--Their Discipline--Diet--Health--Skill--Asylum
Seminary--Worldly Charity--Palliation--A strange Spectacle 187
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Edwardsville--Site and Buildings--Land Mania--A "Down-east"
Incident--Human Nature--The first Land Speculator--Castor-oil
Manufacture--Outlines of Edwardsville--Collinsville--Route to
Alton--Sultriness--The Alton Bluffs--A Panorama--Earth-heaps--
Indian Graves--Upper Alton--Shurtliff College--_Baptized_
Intelligence--Knowledge not Conservative--Greece--Rome--
France--England--The Remedy 197