 | Frank Shuffelton - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 295 pages
...excavation of one of these mounds, he moves from explanation to mystery: But on whatever occasion they may have been made, they are of considerable notoriety...instructions or enquiry, and having staid about it some time, with expressions which were construed to be those of sorrow, they returned to the high road,... | |
 | James Mooney - Social Science - 1995 - 618 pages
...from the neighboring Indian town. The distinguished writer adds: "But on whatever occasion they nmy have been made, they are of considerable notoriety among the Indians: for a party passing, about thiitv years ago [ie, about 1750], through the part of the country where this barrow is, went through... | |
 | James Mooney - Social Science - 1995 - 618 pages
...neighboring Indian town. The distinguished writer adds: "But on whatever occasion they may have heen made, they are of considerable notoriety among the Indians: for a party passing, ahout thirty years ago [ie, about 1750]. through the part of the country where this barrow is, went... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - History - 1999 - 676 pages
...time of inhumation. 6. The existence of infant bones among them. But on whatever occasion they may have been made, they are of considerable notoriety...woods directly to it, without any instructions or inquiry, and having staid about it for some time, with expressions which were construed to be those... | |
 | Devon Abbott Mihesuah - History - 2000 - 356 pages
...relationship of such mounds to the living Indians of the region: "But on whatever occasion they may have been made, they are of considerable notoriety...woods directly to it, without any instructions or inquiry, and having staid about it for some time, with expressions which were construed to be those... | |
 | Peter Nabokov - History - 2002 - 258 pages
...mound that Jefferson would excavate thirty years later. He was struck by the fact that the Indians "went through the woods directly to it, without any...instructions or enquiry, and having staid about it some time, with expressions which were construed to be those of sorrow, they returned to the high road,... | |
 | Linda Bolton - History - 2004 - 232 pages
...the basis of his personal knowledge, Jefferson testifies that "on whatever occasion [the barrows] may have been made, they are of considerable notoriety...woods directly to it, without any instructions or inquiry, and having staid about it for some time, with expres29. Philip Babcock Grove, ed., Webster's... | |
 | James Mooney - Business & Economics - 290 pages
...from the neighboring Indian town. The distinguished writer adds; "But on whatever occasion they may have been made, they are of considerable notoriety among the Indians: for a party passing, about thiitv years ago [ie. about I750J. through the part of the country where this barrow is. went through... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1837 - 602 pages
...friends, and depositing them together in this manner. " But," he observes, " on whatever occasion they may have been made, they are of considerable notoriety...woods directly to it, without any instructions or inquiry, and, having stayed about it some time, with expressions which were construed to be those of... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1893 - 784 pages
...tThis visit took place about 1750, and is thus described: "On whatever occasion they," the mounds, "may have been made, they are of considerable notoriety...thirty years ago through the part of the country where (his barrow is, went through the -woods directly to it, without any instructions or inquiry ; and having... | |
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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... 
