From looking at these relics with silent wonderment, and regard ing them as entirely inexplicable antiquarians have begun to investi gate more closely the plans Of their formation, and gradually find evidences that indicate their design, and explain their origin. But as in the Egyptian hieroglyphics, a keystone and a Champollion were needed to Open to the eyes of the world the stories of the Rameses, so there is yet needed in this country a key to the history which the mound-builders have left recorded in their works.