 But on whatever occasion they may have been made, they are of considerable notoriety among the Indians; for a party passing, about thirty years ago, through the part of the country where this barrow is, went through the woods directly to it, without any...  Congressional Serial Set - Page 5801892Full view - About this book
 | Samuel G. Drake - 1859 - 794 pages
...and deposit them together in this manner. " But," Mr. Jefferson observes, "on whatever occasion they may have been made, they are of considerable notoriety among the Indians: for a party passing, about 30 years ago, through the part of the country where this barrow is, went through the woods directly... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1859 - 642 pages
...whatever occasion they may have been made, they are of considerable notoriety among the Indians; fora party passing, about thirty years ago, through the part of the country where this barrow is, vent through the woods directly to it, without any instructions or inquiry, and having staid about... | |
 | Samuel G. Drake - 1880 - 800 pages
...deposit them together in this manner. " But," Mr. Jefferson, observes, " on whatever occasion they may have been made, they are of considerable notoriety among the Indians : for a party passing, about 30 years ago, through the part of the country where this barrow is, went through the woods directly... | |
 | Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters - 1882 - 774 pages
...all. Jefferson, speaking of the barrows or mounds of Virginia, says: " But on whatsoever occasion they may have been made, they are of considerable notoriety among the Indians. About thirty years ago a party of Indians passing through that part of the country where a mound was... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 634 pages
...of the same practice in the my of Xerxes on the death of Artachseas." But on whatever occasion they may have been made, they are of considerable notoriety among the Indians ; for a party passing, about [179] thirty years ago, through the part of the country where this barrow is, went through the woods... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1893 - 786 pages
...pp. 186 ct scq.: Philadelphia, 1801. tThis visit took place about 1750, and is thus described: "Ou whatever occasion they," the mounds, "may have been...are of considerable notoriety among the Indians: for :i party passing, about thirty years ago through the part of the country where this barrow ig, went... | |
 | 1894 - 556 pages
...further told (pp. Kil, 1(52) that " a party [of Indians] passing about thirty years ago [ic, about 1751 1 through the part of the country where this barrow...some time, with expressions which were construed to bo those of sorrow, they returned to the high road, which they had left about half a dozen miles to... | |
 | Gerard Fowke - 1894 - 92 pages
...further told (pp. liil, 1(12) that "a party [of Indians] passing about thirty years ago [ie, about 1751 ] through the part of the country where this barrow is went through the woods directly to it, without ¡my instructions or inquiry, and having staid about it some time, with expressions which were construed... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 574 pages
...avSpdeiv e1r; rc:lf, o1vvv yeyaatii, xal 01 fitroJCitiQt1' etiovron. But on whatever occasion they may have been made, they are of considerable notoriety among the Indians ; for a party passing, about [179] thirty years ago, through the part of the country where this barrow is, went through the woods... | |
 | Barnard Shipp - 1897 - 524 pages
...the accustomary collection of bones and deposition of them together, f But on whatever occasion they may have been made, they are of considerable notoriety...went through the woods directly to it, without any instruction or inquiry, and having staid about it some time, with expressions which were construed... | |
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