American Antiquities, and Discoveries in the West: Being an Exhibition of the Evidence that an Ancient Population of Partially Civilized Nations, Differing Entirely from Those of the Present Indians, Peopled America, Many Centuries Before Its Discovery by Columbus. And Inquiries Into Their Origin, with a Copious Description of Many of Their Stupendous Works, Now in Ruins. With Conjectures Concerning what May Have Become of Them. Comp. from Travels, Authentic Sources, and the Researches of Antiquarian Societies |
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Page 69 - may at first appear, there are not •wanting circumstances to render it far from being improbable. In the 17th chapter of the second book of Kings, it is said, " In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria, took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in
Page 367 - For Tophet is ordained of old. * * He hath made it deep and large ; the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone doth kindle it.
Page 149 - licks on the Ohio. Their chief speaker immediately put himself into an attitude of oratory, and with a pomp suited to what he conceived the elevation of his subject, informed him that it was a tradition, handed down from their fathers, that in ancient times a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Big
Page 149 - the bear, deer, elk, buffaloes, and other animals, which had been created for the use of the Indians. And that the Great Man above, looking down, and seeing this, •was so enraged, that he seized his
Page 149 - hurled his bolts among them, till the whole were slaughtered ; except the big bull, who presenting his forehead to the shafts, shook them off as they fell, but at length,
Page 395 - bony neck of the ostrich. A panther was let loose, and the archer waited till he had leaped upon a trembling malefactor. In the same instant the shaft flew, the beast dropt dead, and the man remained unhurt. The dens of the amphitheatre disgorged at once a hundred lions ; a hundred darts
Page 161 - They consist of walls and mounds of earth, in direct lines, and in square and circular forms. The largest square fort, by some called the town, contains forty acres, encompassed by a wall of earth, from six to ten feet high, and from twenty to thirty in breadth at the base.
Page 161 - This forms a passage of about twenty rods in length, leading by a gradual descent to the low grounds, where, at the time of its construction, it probably reached the river. Its walls commence at sixty feet from the ramparts of the fort, and increase in elevation as the way descends
Page 279 - No mention shall be made of coral or of pearls : for the price of wisdom it above rubies.
Page 285 - not appear to have been formed by the wheel, nor the web by the loom. The warp and filling, seem to have been crossed and knotted, by an operation like that of the fabrics of the north-west coast, and of the Sandwich islands. The innermost tegument is a mantle of cloth, like the preceding, but