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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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 [V], p. 30. By the higher latitudes of America, I mean all thofe countries which lay to the North of Mexico, for in that empire, and in the empire of Peru, mankind had made confiderable progrefs in civili- zation, and in the art of war. Note [U], p. 30. Fort Pitt is fituated at the jun&ion of the rivers Allechanby and Mon4UNgahela, and is diftant from Philadelphia three hundred and twenty miles. Note [W], p. 36. The fort to which I here allude, is rnuated on a branch of the Ohio, called Indian Creek. Note [X], p. 37. Mr. Kalin fays, thefe wells were difcovered •“ fomewhat below the place where Salem is now tc fituated.” Note (Y)^ p. 42. There can be little doubt that America was dif- covered long before the age of Columbus; but the difcovery was accidental, and it is almoft cer- tain that the djfcoverers never returned home to give any account of the even t.