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... earthen fortifications and mounds demonstrate the former existence of populous nations , capable of executing works of enormous dimensions , requiring perseverance , time and combination of labor for their erection . A detail of these ...
... earthen fortifications and mounds demonstrate the former existence of populous nations , capable of executing works of enormous dimensions , requiring perseverance , time and combination of labor for their erection . A detail of these ...
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... earthen vessel found at Nashville , Tennessee , twenty feet below the surface , is described as being circular , with a flat bottom rounding upwards , and terminating at the summit in the figure of a female head . The features of the ...
... earthen vessel found at Nashville , Tennessee , twenty feet below the surface , is described as being circular , with a flat bottom rounding upwards , and terminating at the summit in the figure of a female head . The features of the ...
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... earthen remains and mounds , and when they are not within tumuli , frequently consist of a rude species of stone coffin , in which the deceased has been interred in a sitting pos- ture . Such are the graves in Missouri , upon the ...
... earthen remains and mounds , and when they are not within tumuli , frequently consist of a rude species of stone coffin , in which the deceased has been interred in a sitting pos- ture . Such are the graves in Missouri , upon the ...
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... earthen embankments and trenches ; which appear most numerously in the district bordering upon the Mississippi and its branches , and in the vicinity of the great lakes and their tributaries ; though they may be found stretching at ...
... earthen embankments and trenches ; which appear most numerously in the district bordering upon the Mississippi and its branches , and in the vicinity of the great lakes and their tributaries ; though they may be found stretching at ...
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... earthen structure . It is a regular tetragon terrace four feet high , with bastions at each . angle , and surrounded with a ditch enclosing about an acre of ground . On the Savannah river , just above Petersburgh , upon a level plain ...
... earthen structure . It is a regular tetragon terrace four feet high , with bastions at each . angle , and surrounded with a ditch enclosing about an acre of ground . On the Savannah river , just above Petersburgh , upon a level plain ...
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