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... fortifications and intrenchments have been ascribed to them , but merely by conjecture ; and their dwellings are usually formed of the most fragile materials . The Esquimaux afford , however , an exception in the latter particular ; for ...
... fortifications and intrenchments have been ascribed to them , but merely by conjecture ; and their dwellings are usually formed of the most fragile materials . The Esquimaux afford , however , an exception in the latter particular ; for ...
Page 24
... fortifications are of similar construction and appearance , with the exception of possessing a lighter color . * Trans . Fairfield Co. Med . Soc . † Schoolcraft's Mississippi , p . 202 . Schoolcraft's View of the Mines and Minerals of ...
... fortifications are of similar construction and appearance , with the exception of possessing a lighter color . * Trans . Fairfield Co. Med . Soc . † Schoolcraft's Mississippi , p . 202 . Schoolcraft's View of the Mines and Minerals of ...
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... fortifications , that the supposition is supported by no positive testimony , and by little that is even reasonably conjectural ; while at the same time we should be careful , in deciding so interesting a question , to bear in mind that ...
... fortifications , that the supposition is supported by no positive testimony , and by little that is even reasonably conjectural ; while at the same time we should be careful , in deciding so interesting a question , to bear in mind that ...
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... fortification was on elevated ground , and in proximity to it was a sepulchral mound , six feet in height , twenty ... fortifications have been perceived in this state , stretching from the Delaware , through the region * Kirkland's ...
... fortification was on elevated ground , and in proximity to it was a sepulchral mound , six feet in height , twenty ... fortifications have been perceived in this state , stretching from the Delaware , through the region * Kirkland's ...
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... fortifications or enclosures extending , at intervals of a few miles , as far as the Pennsylvania boundary line ; nor do they terminate there , but in that state also they occur in great num- bers , to the westward of the Alleghany ...
... fortifications or enclosures extending , at intervals of a few miles , as far as the Pennsylvania boundary line ; nor do they terminate there , but in that state also they occur in great num- bers , to the westward of the Alleghany ...
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