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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    Note [P], p. 20. See the writings of the many travellers among the North American Indians, who almoft all re- mark this fuperftition. Note [ Q_], p. 20. I have not been able to obtain information, from any map which I have examined, concerning the fituation of this Fort. Note [R], p. 22. Kujkujke, was a large town of the Delaware Indians. It was fituated in a beautiful trad: of land, on a branch of Beaver Creek, a large wa- ter which empties itfelf into the Ohio, twenty-nine miles below Fort Pitt. Note [S], p. 23. They were in that ftate in which bones are fre- quently found, preferving their forms, but falling to dull on being touched. Note [T], p. 28. None of them have, fo far as I know, been' examined by digging into them, nor had any one before me conjectured, that they were conftruCted by the fame people who built the very remarkable remains at Mujkingum> and thole near Lexington.