 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 632 pages
...dozen years. Before this it was covered with trees of twelve inches diameter, and round the base was au excavation of five feet depth and width, from whence...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 - 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...superficially in several parts of it, and came to collectious of human bones, at different depths, from six inches to three feet below the surface. These... | |
 | Samuel G. Drake - America - 1854 - 782 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 - 1859 - 794 pages
...about a do/en 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 - Clergy - 1860 - 754 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 whence the eartli had been taken of which the hillock was formed." In this mound my author found abundance of... | |
 | John Campbell Butler - Georgia - 1879 - 394 pages
...feet in altitude, forty feet diameter at the base, around which was an excavation of five feet deep and width from whence the earth had been taken of which the hillock was formed, and that it was covered with trees twelve inches in diameter. The mounds around Macon were also covered... | |
 | Samuel G. Drake - Indians of North America - 1880 - 800 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 - 1894 - 634 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...whence the earth had been taken of which the hillock [175] was formed. I first dug superficially in several parts of it, and came to collections of human... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 558 pages
...excavation of five feet depth and width, from whence the earth had been taken of which the hillock [175] was formed. I first dug superficially in several parts...collections of human bones, at different depths, from six and the Massawomacs. Being questioned concerning the latter, he said, they dwelt on a great water to... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1894 - 574 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...whence the earth had been taken of which the hillock [175] was formed. I first dug superficially in several parts of it, and came to collections of human... | |
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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,... 
