Observations on some parts of natural history : to which is prefixed an account of several remarkable vestiges of an ancient date, which have been discovered in different parts of North America. Pt. I / by Benjamin Smith Barton.

  • Benjamin Smith Barton
Date:
[1787?]
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Credit: Observations on some parts of natural history : to which is prefixed an account of several remarkable vestiges of an ancient date, which have been discovered in different parts of North America. Pt. I / by Benjamin Smith Barton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ( 7° ) te the general rudiments at leaft of the languages tc they fpoke.—Were vocabularies formed of all tf the languages fpoken in North and South “ America, preferving their appellations of the “ mod common objeds in nature, of thofe which ff mud be prefent to every nation barbarous or <e civilized, with the infledions of their nouns and “ verbs, their principles of regimen and, concord, “ and thefe depofited in all the public libraries, “ it would furnifh opportunities to thofe /killed in <f the languages of the old world, to compare <c them with thefe, now, or at any future time, and <c hence to conftrud the bed evidence of the de- <f rivation of this part of the human race.” This re; | ver, may, this gentler parts of I imbed: h( to have mo nipin and o to read th Notes on the State of Virginia; written in the year 1781^ &c. p. 181 & 182, Note [F], p. 8. Thefe trads of land appear to have been fimilar to thofe which are fcattered in immenfe numbers over different parts of North America, and are called Savannas, or Natural Meadows. I have feen feveral of them on the Apallachian moun- tains.> and between thofe mountains and Lake Erie : they are covered with various kinds of gralfes, which, in a foil very favourable to their natures, acquire a rapid and remarkable growth.