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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    memory of an unfortunate countryman : it pro- ceeds from an earned wifh to guard the Public againft an implicit belief in the travels of this gentleman. Note [I], p. 15. Lexington is a town in the county of Fa- yette. and country of Kentucke. 4 - Note [K], p. 16, That the Indians were unacquainted with the manufafture of earthen veffels, is an error into which Mr. Filfon has fallen, in common with many others. When they were firft dilcovered by the Europeans, they made ufe of luch veffels, which were fafhioned with fome degree of neat- nefs. Thefe veffels were formed of different kinds of earth, and were fometimes intermixed with grains of quartz. None of them, were glazed. Travels into North America, by Peter Kalm, vol. II. p. 41 and 42. Note [L], p. 17. Almoft all the writers on the Indians of North- America have taken notice of their manner of burying and of preferving their dead; to them, therefore, the reader is referred for information on the fubjeft.