 These appearances, which are here denominated ancient garden-beds, indicate an earlier and. more perfect system of cultivation than that which now prevails; for the present Indians do not appear to possess the ideas of taste and order necessary to enable...  Archaeologia Cambrensis - Page 611879Full view - About this book
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1863 - 470 pages
...c., p. 19. is about six inches. These appearances, which are here denominated 'ancient garden-beds,' indicate an earlier and more perfect system of cultivation...abundant, are found in several other parts of the State." (Wisconsin.) Date. — In the ancient monuments of the Mississippi valley it is stated that no earthwork... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1865 - 556 pages
...ANTIQUITY OF THE ANCIENT REMAINS. 231 These appearances, which are here denominated 'ancient garden-beds,' indicate an earlier and more perfect system of cultivation...abundant, are found in several other parts of the State (Wisconsin). The garden beds are of various sizes, covering, generally, from twenty to one hundred... | |
 | 1868 - 760 pages
...them is about six inches. These appearances, which are here deno" ruinated ' ancient garden-beds,' indicate an earlier and more perfect " system of cultivation than that which now prevails ; for the pre" sent Indians do not appear to possess the ideas of taste and order " necessary to enable them... | |
 | Ben Douglass - 1878 - 904 pages
...between is about 6 inches. " These manifestations which are here denominated "ancient garden-beds," indicate an earlier and more perfect system of cultivation than that which now prevails, as the present Indians are destitute of those conceptions of order and taste necessary to such harmonious... | |
 | Kansas Academy of Science - 1890 - 206 pages
...between them is about six inches. These appearances, which are here denominated ancient garden-beds, indicate an earlier and. more perfect system of cultivation...cultivation, though not very abundant, are found in several parts of the State. The garden beds are of various sizes, covering generally from twenty to one hundred... | |
 | George Laurence Gomme - 1890 - 350 pages
...having been .counted in the space of 100 feet, and the depth of the walk between them is about 6 inches. These appearances, which are here denominated ' ancient...cultivation, though not very abundant, are found in several parts of the state. The garden beds are of various sizes, covering generally from twenty to one hundred... | |
 | George Laurence Gomme - 1890 - 358 pages
...the depth of the walk between them is about 6 inches. These appearances, which are here denominated 1 ancient garden beds,' indicate an earlier and more...cultivation, though not very abundant, are found in several parts of the state. The garden beds are of various sizes, covering generally from twenty to one hundred... | |
 | Kansas Academy of Science. Meeting - 1890 - 222 pages
...between them is about six inches. These appearances, which are here denominated ancient garden-beds, indicate an earlier and more perfect system of cultivation...cultivation, though not very abundant, are found in several parts of the State. The garden beds are of various sizes, covering generally from twenty to one hundred... | |
 | 1897 - 44 pages
...the depth of the walk between them is about six inches. These appearances, which are here denominated 'garden beds,' indicate an earlier and more perfect...system of cultivation than, that which now prevails." [16] Lapham also describes the hillocks, calling them "Indian corn hills," and says that the corn being... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1900 - 748 pages
...between them is about six inches. These appearances, which are here denominated ' ancient garden-beds,' indicate an earlier and more perfect system of cultivation...to arrange objects in consecutive rows. Traces of Ibis kind of cultivation, though not very abundant, are found in several other parts of the State (Wisconsin).... | |
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