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... discovery of the sublime truths of astronomy . Like the base of some ancient column , covered with fallen fragments almost defying the efforts of the explorer to restore it to its former light and glory , primitive history is hidden ...
... discovery of the sublime truths of astronomy . Like the base of some ancient column , covered with fallen fragments almost defying the efforts of the explorer to restore it to its former light and glory , primitive history is hidden ...
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... discovery , that most of these tumuli are of considerable 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 ...
... discovery , that most of these tumuli are of considerable 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 ...
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... discovered , 1st , within the territory of the United States ; 2d , in Central America , Mexico and the adjoining provinces ; and 3d , in Peru and other parts of South America . 1. The ancient remains of the United States bear evident ...
... discovered , 1st , within the territory of the United States ; 2d , in Central America , Mexico and the adjoining provinces ; and 3d , in Peru and other parts of South America . 1. The ancient remains of the United States bear evident ...
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... discovered within the graves , mounds , and mural remains ; and of other objects , of a miscellaneous character . The art of pottery is one of very early invention , as fragments of earthenware are found among the oldest ruins of the ...
... discovered within the graves , mounds , and mural remains ; and of other objects , of a miscellaneous character . The art of pottery is one of very early invention , as fragments of earthenware are found among the oldest ruins of the ...
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... discovered in a tumulus at Nashville presents the figure of a man without arms , and the nose and chin mutilated . The head is covered with a fillet and cake , and the hair is plaited : -The composition is of fine clay mixed with gypsum ...
... discovered in a tumulus at Nashville presents the figure of a man without arms , and the nose and chin mutilated . The head is covered with a fillet and cake , and the hair is plaited : -The composition is of fine clay mixed with gypsum ...
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Page 66 - Some of these new forests are now sure of fifty years' growth, but they have made so little progress towards attaining the appearance of the immediately contiguous forest as to induce any man of reflection to determine that at least ten times fifty years must elapse before their complete assimilation can be effected.
Page 66 - The process by which nature restores the forest to its original state, after being once cleared, is extremely slow. The rich lands of the West are, indeed, soon covered again ; but the character of the growth is entirely different, and continues so for a long period. In several places upon the Ohio, and upon the farm which I occupy, clearings were made in the first settlement of the country, and subsequently abandoned...
Page 67 - The long undisputed masters of the forest may be thinned by the lightning, the tempest, or by diseases peculiar to themselves; and whenever this is the case, one of the oft-rejected of another family, will find between its decaying roots, shelter and appropriate food; and springing into vigorous growth, will soon push its green foliage to the skies, through the decayed and withering...
Page 100 - Spanish habits, with hose, ruff round the neck, sword, cap, and short cloak. On entering the gateway there are two fine stone pyramids, moderately large and lofty, from which is suspended a hammock that contains two human figures, one of each sex, clothed in the Indian style. Astonishment is forcibly excited on viewing this structure, because, large as it is, there is no appearance of the component parts being joined together; and, although entirely of stone, and of an enormous weight, it may be...
Page 349 - But if you are men subject to mortality like ourselves, you cannot be unapprised that after this life there is another, wherein a very different portion is allotted to good and bad men. If therefore you expect to die and believe with us that everyone is to be rewarded in a future state according to his conduct in the present, you will do no hurt to those who do no hurt to you.
Page 246 - I think, an irrefragable proof that the difference of colour in the different inhabitants of the earth is not the immediate effect of climate. The children of Europeans born in this island are as fair as those born in the country of their parents.
Page 258 - The colour of the eye is a deep chesnut: they are very long and narrow, removed to a great distance from each other; and the eyelids, at the extremity next the nose, instead of forming an angle, as in Europeans, are rounded into each other exactly like those of the Chinese ; to whom, indeed, in many other points, they bear a physical resemblance that is sufficiently striking.
Page 256 - Their features, on the whole, have more of the Ethiopic than of the American race. The countenance is oval, the cheek-bones high, but not so broad as in the Indians; the nose broad and flattened, but neither turned up nor much bent; the mouth broad, with thick but equal lips, which, as well as the lower jaw, project but little; the black eyes have a more open and freer look than in the Indians, yet are still a little oblique, if not standing so much inward as in them, on the other hand, not turned...
Page 67 - ... or by diseases peculiar to themselves; and whenever this is the case, one of the oft-rejected of another family will find between its decaying roots shelter and appropriate food, and springing into vigorous growth, will soon push its green foliage to the skies through the decayed and withering limbs of its blasted and dying adversary; the soil itself yielding it a more liberal support than any scion from the former occupants.
Page 289 - I am certain, that all the people you call red people on the continent of America, and on the continents of Europe and Asia, as far south as the southern parts of China, are all one people, by whatever names distinguished, and that the best general name would be Tartar. I suspect that all red people are of the same family. I am satisfied, that America was peopled from Asia, and had some, if not all, its animals from thence.