American Antiquities and Researches Into the Origin and History of the Red Race |
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... miles below Pittsburg , and found them in great numbers , and apparently " the work of a people acquainted with the use of iron instruments , or with hardened metallic instruments of some kind . " + Upon one of the branches of the ...
... miles below Pittsburg , and found them in great numbers , and apparently " the work of a people acquainted with the use of iron instruments , or with hardened metallic instruments of some kind . " + Upon one of the branches of the ...
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... miles ; the one containing about four , and the other eight acres of land . The ditch encompassing a part of the former was six feet deep , -a stream and a high bank , bisected by a covered way to the water , defending the remaining ...
... miles ; the one containing about four , and the other eight acres of land . The ditch encompassing a part of the former was six feet deep , -a stream and a high bank , bisected by a covered way to the water , defending the remaining ...
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... 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 ridge , and are of a similar character with those just described ...
... 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 ridge , and are of a similar character with those just described ...
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... miles above its confluence with the Oconee , upon the heights of the low grounds , are vestiges of an ancient town , such as artificial mounts or terraces , squares , and embankments encircling consi- derable areas . On the west bank of ...
... miles above its confluence with the Oconee , upon the heights of the low grounds , are vestiges of an ancient town , such as artificial mounts or terraces , squares , and embankments encircling consi- derable areas . On the west bank of ...
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... mile . || Upon one of the islands of Lake George , are the remains of * Bartram's Travels , p . 31 . Silliman's Journal , vol . i . p . 322 . † Ibid . p . 388 . § " I was informed , by a gentleman in Tennessee , of the existence of a ...
... mile . || Upon one of the islands of Lake George , are the remains of * Bartram's Travels , p . 31 . Silliman's Journal , vol . i . p . 322 . † Ibid . p . 388 . § " I was informed , by a gentleman in Tennessee , of the existence of a ...
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