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Page 60
... says , " I have been informed that in the plains between the Arkansas and St. Francis , the mounds are numerous and some very large , " and he also gives a list of fifteen different places , at the West , where there are extensive ...
... says , " I have been informed that in the plains between the Arkansas and St. Francis , the mounds are numerous and some very large , " and he also gives a list of fifteen different places , at the West , where there are extensive ...
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... say that five thousand might be found , some of them enclosing more than a hundred acres ; " and of the mounds and tumuli , he says that they are much more numerous . * This statement , though * Trans . Amer . Phil . Soc . , vol . i . p ...
... say that five thousand might be found , some of them enclosing more than a hundred acres ; " and of the mounds and tumuli , he says that they are much more numerous . * This statement , though * Trans . Amer . Phil . Soc . , vol . i . p ...
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... says Denon in his Travels into Egypt , " has become of the residences or palaces of the kings ? Were they built of unbaked and therefore perishable earth -- or did the great men as well as the priests , inhabit the temples , and the ...
... says Denon in his Travels into Egypt , " has become of the residences or palaces of the kings ? Were they built of unbaked and therefore perishable earth -- or did the great men as well as the priests , inhabit the temples , and the ...
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... vol . ii . p . 177 . § Waldeck says , " The descriptions of the Mexican Teocalli are very contradictory . Some terra cottas represent them in minia- The most remarkable objects still existing , within the limits AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES . 75.
... vol . ii . p . 177 . § Waldeck says , " The descriptions of the Mexican Teocalli are very contradictory . Some terra cottas represent them in minia- The most remarkable objects still existing , within the limits AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES . 75.
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... says , " they had almost all the same form , so that what we shall say of the prin- cipal temple , will suffice to explain all the others . " See also De Solis , vol . ii . pp . 177 , 214 , 222. Some authors represent the base of the ...
... says , " they had almost all the same form , so that what we shall say of the prin- cipal temple , will suffice to explain all the others . " See also De Solis , vol . ii . pp . 177 , 214 , 222. Some authors represent the base of the ...
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