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" The mirror answered the purpose very well for which it was intended. This skeleton had also been burned like the former, and lay on charcoal and a considerable quantity of wood ashes. A part of the mirror is in my possession as well as a piece of brick,... "
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution - Page 548
by Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1893
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Archaeologia Americana: Transactions and Collections of the ..., Volume 1

American Antiquarian Society - 1820 - 484 pages
...mirrour was of isinglass, (mica membranacea) and on it, 6. A plate of iron, which had become an oxyde ; but before it was disturbed by the spade, resembled a plate of cast iron. The mirrour answered the purpose very well for which it was intended. This skeleton had also been burned...
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Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society, Volume 1

American Antiquarian Society - 1820 - 478 pages
...mirrour was of isinglass, (mica membranacea) and on it, 6. A plate of iron, which had become an oxyde ; but before it was disturbed by the spade, resembled a plate of cast iron. The mirrour answered the purpose very well for which it was intended. This skeleton had also been burned...
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Letters from North America: Written During a Tour in the United States and ...

Adam Hodgson - 1824 - 492 pages
...was of isinglass, (mica membra, nacea,) and on it, " 6. A plate of iron, which had become an oxyde ; but before it was disturbed by the spade, resembled a plate of cast iron. The mirror answered the purpose very well for which it was intended. This skeleton had also been burned...
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American Antiquities, and Discoveries in the West: Being an Exhibition of ...

Josiah Priest - 1833 - 534 pages
...i AND DISCOVERIES IN THE WEST. 179 On this mirror was a plate of iron, which had become an oxyde ; but before it was disturbed by the spade, resembled a plate of cast iron- The mirror answered the purpose very well for which it was intended. This skeleton had also been burned...
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American Antiquities, and Discoveries in the West: Being an Exhibition of ...

Josiah Priest - 1833 - 418 pages
...was of isinglass, (mica membranacea.) On this mirror was a plate of iron, which had become an oxyde; but before it was disturbed by the spade, resembled a plate of cant iron. The mirror answered the purpose very well for which it wa» intended. This skeleton had...
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American Antiquities and Discoveries in the West

Josiah Priest - 1835 - 416 pages
...was of isinglass, (mica membranacea.) On this mirror was a plate of iron, which had become an oxyde, but before it was disturbed by the spade, resembled a plate of cast iron. The mirror answered the purpose very well for which it was intended. This skeleton had also been burned...
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Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Volume 2

American Antiquarian Society - 1883 - 408 pages
...other reference, on the same page, is as follows : — " A plate of iron, which had become a,n oxyde; but before it was disturbed by the spade, resembled a plate of cast iron." In these days when only the most careful and critical work is of any value, something more definite...
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Annual Report of the Trustees of the Peabody Museum ..., Volume 3; Volumes 14-20

Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology - 1887 - 634 pages
...other reference, on the same page, is as follows : " A plate of iron, which li:id become an oxyde ; but before it was disturbed by the spade, resembled a plate of cast iron." Certainly something more dellnite than this statement is required before it can be said that catt iron...
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Antiquities of the State of Ohio

Henry A. Shepherd - 1887 - 182 pages
..."The other reference. on the same page, is as follows: 'A plate of iron, which had become an oxyde; but before it was disturbed by the spade, resembled a plate of cast iron.' Certainly something more definite than this statement is required before it can be said that cast iron...
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1893 - 786 pages
...1 i feet in breadth, and 1A inches in thiekness. This mirrour was of isinglass (mica membranacea), and on it (was) a plate of iron, which had become...skeletons; but of these it is unnecessary to speak, as they proba bly did not differ from those that lie scattered about everywhere in the Ohio Valley, and they...
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