 | Illinois State Historical Society - Illinois - 1908 - 74 pages
...Jefferson said : "That they were repositories of the dead, has been obvious to all. ****** Some ascribe them to the custom, said to prevail among the Indians,...dead wheresoever deposited at the time of death," and forming mounds by covering them with earth. The mound forty feet in diameter at the base and seven... | |
 | Conway Whittle Sams - Indians of North America - 1916 - 550 pages
...has been obvious to all; but on what particular occasion constructed, was a matter of doubt. " Some have thought they covered the bones of those who have...time of death. Others again supposed them the general sepulchres for towns, conjectured to have been on or near these grounds; and this opinion was supported... | |
 | George Thornton Fleming - Pittsburgh (Pa.) - 1922 - 642 pages
...dead has been obvious to all, but on what particular occasion constructed was a matter of doubt. Some have thought they covered the bones of those who have fallen in battles fought on the spot of the monument. Some ascribe them to the custom said to prevail among Indians, of collecting at certain... | |
 | George Thornton Fleming - Pennsylvania - 1922 - 646 pages
...dead has been obvious to all, but on what particular occasion constructed was a matter of doubt. Some have thought they covered the bones of those who have fallen in battles fought on the spot of the monument. Some ascribe them to the custom said to prevail among Indians, of collecting at certain... | |
 | Claude Lindsay Yowell - Madison County (Va.) - 1926 - 216 pages
...the bones of those who fell in battle on the spot where they fought ; others ascribe the mounds found to the custom said to prevail among the Indians, of collecting at certain periods of time the bones of all their dead where-so-ever deposited at the time of their death, and burying... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - History - 1999 - 676 pages
...dead, has been obvious to all; but on what particular occasion constructed, was a matter of doubt. Some have thought they covered the bones of those who have...time of death. Others again supposed them the general sepulchres for towns, conjectured to have been on or near these grounds; and this opinion was supported... | |
 | Steven Conn - History - 2006 - 289 pages
..."general sepulchers for towns," or whether, as others argued, they were erected periodically after "the bones of all their dead, wheresoever deposited at the time of death" had been recollected. Bones, then, interested Iefferson in his brief description of the excavation.... | |
 | Stephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman - America - 1902 - 438 pages
...dead, has been obvious to all; but, on what particular occasion constructed, was matter of doubt. Som'e have thought they covered the bones of those who have...to the custom said to prevail among the Indians, of collec-ing, at certain periods, the bones of all their dead, wheresoever deposited at time of death.... | |
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Some ascribed them to the custom, said to prevail among the Indians, of collecting, at certain periods, the bones of all their dead, wheresoever deposited at the time of death. 
