 | Increase Allen Lapham - Earthworks (Archaeology) - 2001 - 214 pages
...counted in the space of a hundred feet; and the depth of the walk between them is about six inches. These appearances, which are here denominated " ancient...abundant, are found in several other parts of the State. But, however ancient these garden-beds may be, they were not made until long after the erection of... | |
 | Science - 1863 - 448 pages
...and the depth of the walk between them 0 L. c., p. 90. t Lapham, I c., p. 19. is about six inches. These appearances, which are here denominated 'ancient...this kind of cultivation, though not very abundant, arc found in several other parts of the State." (Wisconsin.) Date. — In the ancient monuments of... | |
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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... 
