 | Samuel G. Drake - Indians of North America - 1880 - 800 pages
...about the salt licks on the Ohio River. " The chief speaker," continues our author, Mr. Jefferson, "immediately put himself into an attitude of oratory,...to what he conceived the elevation of his subject," began and repeated as follows : — " In ancient times, a herd of these tremendous animal* came to... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880 - 584 pages
...the Saltlicks on the Ohio. Their chief speaker immediately put himself into an attitude of oratury, and with a pomp suited to what he conceived the elevation of his subject, informed 1dm that it was a tradition handed down from their fathers, ' that in ancient times a herd of these... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1880 - 852 pages
...Salt-licks, on the Ohio. Their chief speaker inrnediately put himself into ;in attitude of oratory, nnd with a pomp suited to what he conceived the elevation of his subject, in formed him that it was a tradition lianded down from their fathers, that in ant-lent times a herd... | |
 | Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences - Natural history - 1880 - 404 pages
...animals whose bones were found at the salt licks on the Ohio (Big Bone Lick, Kentucky). Their chief immediately put himself into an attitude of oratory, and with a pomp suited to^what he conceived the elevation of the subject, informed him that it was a tradition handed down... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 614 pages
...or had heard of the animal whose bones were found at the Saltlicks on the Ohio. Their chief speaker immediately put himself into an attitude of oratory,...times a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Big-bone licks, and began an universal destruction of the bear, deer, elks, buffaloes, and other animals... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Publishers' bindings - 1894 - 748 pages
...or had heard of the animal whose bones were found at the Saltlicks on the Ohio. Their chief speaker immediately put himself into an attitude of oratory,...times a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Big-bone licks, and began an universal destruction of the bear, deer, elks, buffaloes, and other animals... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 356 pages
...others, what they knew or had heard of the animal whose bones were found at the Saltlicks on the Ohio. to what he conceived the elevation of his subject,...times a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Big-bone licks, and began an universal destruction of the bear, deer, elks, buffaloes, and other animals... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Poetry - 1883 - 544 pages
...or had heard of the animal whose bones were found at the Saltlicks on the Ohio. Their chief speaker immediately put himself into an attitude of oratory, and with a pomp suited to what ha conceived the elevation of his subject, informed him that it was a tradition handed down from their... | |
 | New England - 1903 - 820 pages
...having asked some delegates of the Delawares what they knew respecting this animal; the chief speaker informed him that it was a tradition handed down from their fathers, 'That in ancient times a herd of them came to the Kig-bone licks, and began an universal destruction of the bears, deer, elks, buffaloes,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 346 pages
...or had heard of the animal whose bones were found at the Saltlicks on the Ohio. Their chief speaker immediately put himself into an attitude of oratory,...' that in ancient times a herd of these tremendous animalq came to the Big-bone licks, and began an universal destruction of the bear, deer, elks, buffaloes,... | |
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That in ancient times a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Big-bone licks, and began an universal destruction of the bear, deer, elks, buffaloes, and other animals which had been created for the use of the Indians... 
