 | New Church gen. confer - 1859 - 602 pages
...great number of the fossil instruments which have been likened to hatchets, spear-heads, andwedges, is truly wonderful. More than a thousand of them have...reminded of a large Indian mound which I saw in St. Simon's Island, in Georgia— a mound ten acres in area, and having an average height of five feet,... | |
 | 1864 - 764 pages
...in bis remarks before the British Association in 1859, said upon the discovery alluded to here : " I am reminded of a large Indian mound which I saw in St. Simon'* Island in Georgia — a mound ten acres in area, and having an average height of five feet,... | |
 | 1862 - 796 pages
...Lyell, in his remarks before the British Association in 1869, said upon thadiscovery alluded to here: " I am reminded of a large Indian mound which I saw in St. Simon's Island in Georgia, — a mound ten acres in area, and having an average height of five feet,... | |
 | 1859 - 552 pages
...More than a thousand have already been met with in the last ten years, in the valley of the Somrae, in an area fifteen miles in length. I infer that a...Indian mound, which I saw in St. Simond's Island, in Georgia,—a mound ten acres in urea, and having an average height of five feet, chiefly composed of... | |
 | William Nelson Pendleton - 1860 - 362 pages
...him. The stratified gravel resting immediately on the chalk in which these rudely-fashioned implements are buried, belongs to the- post-pliocene period,...Island, in Georgia — a mound ten acres in area, having an average height of five feet, chiefly composed of cast-away oystershells — throughout which... | |
 | 1860 - 452 pages
...before him. The stratified gravel resting immediately on the chalk in which these rudely iashioned instruments are buried, belongs to the post-pliocene...this region ; and I am reminded of a large Indian mourtd, which I saw in St. Simond'a Island, in Georgia — a mound ton aeres in area, and having an... | |
 | 1860 - 536 pages
...species. The great number of the fossil instruments vhich have been likened to hatchets, spear- heads, and wedges, is truly wonderful. More than a thousand...Island in Georgia — a mound ten acres in area, and hai ing an average height of five feet, chiefly composed of cast-away oyster- shells, throughout which... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1860 - 582 pages
...of gravel (which is stated to have been covered with sand and brick earth) were also found bones of More than a thousand of them have already been met...reminded of a large Indian mound which I saw in St. Simonds Island, in Georgia; a mound ten acres in area, and ha-ing an average height of fi-e feet, chiefly... | |
 | 1860 - 966 pages
...wonderful. Mon- than 1,000 of them have already been met with in the last ten years, in the valley of tlie Somme, in an area fifteen miles in length. I infer...in area, and having an average height of five feet, chiftîy composed of cast-away oyster shells, throughout -which arrow-bea«K stone-axes, and Indian... | |
 | 1860 - 512 pages
...of them have already been met with in the last ten years, in the valley of the Somme, in an area 15 miles in length. I infer that a tribe of savages,...saw in St. Simond's Island, in Georgia — a mound 10 acres in area, and having an average height of five feet, chiefly composed of castaway oyster shells,... | |
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Somme, in an area fifteen miles in length. I infer that a tribe of savages, to whom the use of iron was unknown, made a long sojourn in this region ; and I am reminded of a large Indian mound, which I saw in St... 
