Prehistoric America, Հատոր 2

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Office of the American Antiquarian, 1890

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Էջ 150 - The islands are covered with fine trees, but we could not see any more roebucks, buffaloes, bustards, and swans. We met from time to time monstrous fish, which struck so violently against our canoes, that at first we took them to be large trees, which threatened to upset us.
Էջ 106 - ... the head and tail. The neck of the serpent is stretched out, and slightly curved, and its mouth is opened wide, as if in the act of swallowing or ejecting an oval figure, which rests partially within the distended jaws. This oval is formed by an embankment of earth, without any perceptible opening, four feet in height, and is perfectly regular in outline, its transverse and conjugate diameters being one hundred and sixty and eighty feet respectively.
Էջ 328 - The tail of the serpent rests near the shore of Loch Nell, and the ground gradually rises seventeen to twenty feet in height, and is continued for three hundred feet, forming a double curve, like a huge letter S, and wonderfully perfect in outline. The head formed a circular cairn, on which there still remains some trace of an altar. Dr. Phene excavated the circular cairn, or circle of stones, and found three large stones, forming a megalithic chamber. From the ridge of the serpent's back, it was...
Էջ 27 - Is not the existence of such a mound good evidence of the existence of the mastodon and the mound builders."* Another person who visited this effigy and represented it as an elephant, is Mr. Moses Strong, who says, "It is known as the
Էջ 152 - We found on the banks of this river a village called Kuilka, consisting of seventy-four cabins. They received us very kindly, and we promised to return to instruct them. The chief, with most of the youth of this village, accompanied us to the lake, from whence we returned to the Bay of Puan [Green Bay] , about the end of September.
Էջ 14 - A short distance to the west of them is a natural swell of ground with a tumulus on the top of it overlooking it. An old Indian trail passes between them and the military road followed the same line. Mr. Taylor suggests that the figures were intended to represent the fox, but Prof. Locke remarks " that they have an expression of agility and fleetncss and may have been intended to represent the congar or American tiger, an animal still existing in the region.
Էջ 151 - As we were descending the river we saw high rocks with hideous monsters painted on them, and upon which the bravest Indians dare not look. They are as large as a calf, with head and horns like a goat ; their eyes red ; beard like a tiger's ; and a face like a man's. Their tails are so long that they pass over their heads and between their forelegs, under their belly, and end like a fish's tail. They are painted red, green, and black.
Էջ 328 - In the oval embankment, with its central pile of burnt stones in combination with the serpent, we have the three symbols everywhere regarded in the old world as emblems of primitive faith.
Էջ 122 - Antiquarian. 244 rate and systematic account of these " furrows." Indeed, he is the only author of note who honors this interesting class of the works of the Mound-Builders with more than the most meagre mention. Observations were made by him as early as 1827. He gives figures of two kinds of beds, and he records the fact, that " the garden-beds, and not the mounds, form the most prominent, and, by far, the most striking and characteristic antiquarian monuments of this district of country.

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