 | John Kilbourn - 1819 - 198 strani
...purpose, these stupendous monuments of human ingenuity were erected. Their origin is so deeply involved in the obscurity of remote antiquity, without any...history, or even authentic tradition, to conduct our enquiries concerning them to the desired result, that no certainty upon, the subject will probably... | |
 | Charles Prentiss, William Sullivan - 1821 - 288 strani
...purpose, these stupendous monuments of human ingenuity were erected. Their origin is so deeply involved in the obscurity of remote antiquity, without any...history, or even authentic tradition, to conduct our enquiries concerning them to the desired result, that no certainly upon. the subject will probably... | |
 | Charles Prentiss, William Sullivan - 1823 - 288 strani
...purpose, these stupendous monuments of human ingenuity were erected. Their origin is so deeply involved in the obscurity of remote antiquity, without any...desired result, that no certainty upon the subject will probabty ever be attained. The writer will therefore only give an account of facts, or a mere statement... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - 1823 - 374 strani
...purpose, these stupendous monuments of human ingenuity were erected. Their origin is so deeply involved in the obscurity of remote antiquity, without any...history, or even authentic tradition, to conduct our enquiries concerning them to the desired result, that no certainty upon the subject will probably ever... | |
 | John Kilbourn - 1831 - 354 strani
...stupendous monuments of human labor and ingenuity, were erected. Their origin is so deeply involved in the obscurity of remote antiquity, without any...history, or even authentic tradition to conduct our enquiries concerning them to the desired result, that no certainty upon the subject will probably ever... | |
 | William Gilman Lyford - 1837 - 502 strani
...these stupendous monuments of labor and ingenuity, were erected. Their origin is so deeply involved in the obscurity of remote antiquity, without any...upon the subject will probably ever be attained." The mounds vary in size and somewhat in shape, (round or oval?) the magnitude of some being 15 to 20rods... | |
 | William Gilman Lyford - 1837 - 506 strani
...these stupendous monuments of labor and ingenuity, were erected. Their origin is so deeply involved in the obscurity of remote antiquity, without any...upon the subject will probably ever be attained." The mounds vary in size and somewhat in shape, (round or oval;) the magnitude of some being 15 to 20 rods... | |
 | Warren Jenkins - 1839 - 548 strani
...steupendous monuments of human labor and ingenuity, were erected. Their origin is so deeply involved in the obscurity of remote antiquity, without any...certainty upon the subject will probably ever be attained. Thu writer will, therefore, only give an account of facta, or a mere statement of the present appearances... | |
 | Reuben Gold Thwaites - 1905 - 378 strani
...purpose, these stupendous monuments of human ingenuity were erected. Their origin is so deeply involved in the obscurity of remote antiquity, without any...history, or even authentic tradition, to conduct our enquiries concerning them to the desired result, that no certainty upon the subject will probably ever... | |
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... and terminate in Mexico. Various have been the conjectures of the learned concerning the time when, by what people, and even for what purpose, these stupendous monuments of human ingenuity were erected. 