 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 750 pages
...it was covered this with tree« of n inches ii.amctvr, and round the bale -.vas an excavation of. 5 feet depth and width, from whence the earth had been taken of which the hillock, was formed. I firit dug fuperficially in feveral parts of it, and came to collections of human bones, at different... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 740 pages
...to the firft, the fccorid reclined againft him, and the cover of earth bafe was an excavation of 5 feet depth and width, from whence the earth had been taken of which the hillock waa formed. I firft dug fuperficially in feveral parts of it, and came to collections of human bones,... | |
 | Frederick Butler - United States - 1821 - 474 pages
...a dozen years. Before this it was covered with trees of twelve inches diameter, and round the base was an excavation of five feet depth and width, from...surface. These were lying in the utmost confusion, some vertical, some oblique, some horizontal, and directed to every point of the compass, entangled, and... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Tobacco - 1832 - 296 pages
...about a dozen years. Before this it was covered with trees of 12 inches diameter, and round the base was an excavation of five feet depth and width, from...earth had been taken of which the hillock was formed. 1 100 first dug superficially in several parts of it, and came to collections of human bones, at different... | |
 | Samuel G. Drake - Indians of North America - 1837 - 654 pages
...about a dozen years. Before this it was covered with trees of 12 inchesdiameter, and round the baso was an excavation of five feet depth and width, from...earth had been taken of which the hillock was formed." In this mound my author found abundance of human bones, which, from their position, it wag evident... | |
 | Samuel Gardner Drake - Indians of North America - 1837 - 642 pages
...about a dozen years. Before this it was covered with trees of 12 inches diameter, and round the base was an excavation of five feet depth and width, from...earth, had been taken of which the hillock was formed." In this mound my author fouud abundance of human bones, which, from their position, it was evident... | |
 | Samuel G. Drake - Indians of North America - 1841 - 790 pages
...about a dozen years. Before this it was covered with trees of 12 inches diameter, and round the base was an excavation of five feet depth and width, from...earth had been taken of which the hillock was formed." In this mound my author found abundance of human bones, which, from their position, it was evident... | |
 | Samuel G. Drake - Indians of North America - 1845 - 800 pages
...it was covered with trees of 12 inches diameter, and round the base was an excavation of five foet depth and width, from whence the earth had been taken of which the hillock was formed." In this mouud my author found abundance of human hones, which, from their position, it was evident... | |
 | Samuel G. Drake - Indians of North America - 1848 - 708 pages
...about a dozen years. Before this it was covered with trees of 12 inches diameter, and round the base was an excavation of five feet depth and width, from...earth had been taken of which the hillock was formed." In this mound my author found abundance of human bones, which, from their position, it was evident... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 628 pages
...a dozen years. Before this it was covered with trees of twelve inches diameter, and round the base was an excavation of five feet depth and width, from...surface. These were lying in the utmost confusion, some vertical, some oblique, some horizontal, and directed to every point of the compass, entangled and... | |
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... feet altitude, though now reduced by the plough to seven and a half, having been under cultivation about a dozen years. Before this it was covered with trees of twelve inches diameter, and round the base was an excavation of five feet depth and width,... 
