American Antiquities and Researches Into the Origin and History of the Red Race |
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... ages of the world . Thus of necessity are mankind impelled , in the gratification of a laudable curiosity , to examine other chan- nels by which the events of remote antiquity may have been transmitted , and to study and compare the ...
... ages of the world . Thus of necessity are mankind impelled , in the gratification of a laudable curiosity , to examine other chan- nels by which the events of remote antiquity may have been transmitted , and to study and compare the ...
Page 10
... ages . Tradition and mythology are no less valuable aids in the elucidation of ancient history . Though , when isolated , of doubtful authority , in combination they cement and perfect an historical fabric , the parts of which ...
... ages . Tradition and mythology are no less valuable aids in the elucidation of ancient history . Though , when isolated , of doubtful authority , in combination they cement and perfect an historical fabric , the parts of which ...
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... age , and it has even been doubted , whether they were constructed by the immediate ancestors of the present Indians ; but it appears , from a very respectable authority , that many tribes still continue to this day to raise a tumulus ...
... age , and it has even been doubted , whether they were constructed by the immediate ancestors of the present Indians ; but it appears , from a very respectable authority , that many tribes still continue to this day to raise a tumulus ...
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... age : around the neck of one of the children were beads of muscle shell , a piece of cane , entire shells , arrows , and a curiously wrought stone . Near Newark , Ohio , is a conical stone tumulus , forty feet high , and with a base one ...
... age : around the neck of one of the children were beads of muscle shell , a piece of cane , entire shells , arrows , and a curiously wrought stone . Near Newark , Ohio , is a conical stone tumulus , forty feet high , and with a base one ...
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... age , the vestiges of decayed wood , and the absence of that uniformity of character peculiar to a recent second growth , demonstrate that several generations of trees have sprung up and disappeared since these works were deserted . The ...
... age , the vestiges of decayed wood , and the absence of that uniformity of character peculiar to a recent second growth , demonstrate that several generations of trees have sprung up and disappeared since these works were deserted . The ...
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