Th Americans of Antiquity, p. 98, _ibid._, p. 187: There is no reason f

Een supposed to be, the engraving in Short's volume is subject to
criticism. In the cast the outline of the figure, while better defined
than Squier and Davis represent it to be, is still very indefinite, the
outline not only being broken into, but being in places, especially
toward the head, indistinguishable from the surface of the tablet into
which it insensibly grades. In the view as found in Short there is none
of this irregularity and indefiniteness of outline, the figure being
perfect and standing out clearly as though just from the sculptor's
hand. As perhaps on the whole the nearest approach to the form of a
manatee appearing on any object claimed to have originated at the hands
of the Mound-Builders, and from the fact that artists have interpreted
its outline so differently, this figure, given by the latest
commentators on the Cincinnati tablet, is interesting, and has seemed
worthy of mention. As, however, the authenticity of the tablet itself is
not above suspicion, but, on the contrary, is believed by many
archaeologists to admit of grave doubts, the subject need not be pursued
further here. [Illustration: Fig. 13.--Cincinnati Tablet. (Back.) From
Short.] TOUCAN. The _a priori_ probability that the toucan was known to
the Mound-Builders is, of course, much less than that the manatee was,
since no species of toucan occurs farther north than Southern Mexico.
Its distant habitat also militates against the idea that the
Mound-Builders could have acquired a knowledge of the bird from
intercourse with southern tribes, or that they received the supposed
toucan pipes by way of trade. Without discussing the several theories to
which the toucan pipes have given rise, let us first examine the
evidence offered as to the presence in the mounds of sculptures of the
tou

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