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Mir. Schoolcrat who knows more nl American tamuli and antiquities than any one we are acquainted with in the United States, has started new theory which bids lair to un-hafch or un. hinge the very un-ro- mantle and too philosophical distractions of Professor Hitchcock, which made our Indian mausoeums nothing more than flu vaiile deposites of alluvion, accidentally as- suming quadrangular configuration. But hear Mir. Sehoolerait:

 "Mr. R. Il. Schoolcrad in a Discourse lately delivered before Ibe Historical Soc- ety of Michigan, speaking of monuments of the Indians, says ;-"fhey generally indicate people in the rudest state of so- clety, who made stone clumsiiy answer the various purposes of iron, and buried their dead above ground probably for the simple want of a shovel 10 dig grave. They piled one body npon another for reasons obvious in cratic nations, and they choose high places of burial, to be out of reach of periodical floods. This we consider the most reasonable explanation of the mounds which have been referred to, as evidences of their skill in geometry, of their idolatra- ry, populousness--an m short, of any thing, but what they appear, in reality, to have been, rude burrows of the dead