Biography and History of the Indians of North America;: Comprising a General Account of Them, and Details in the Lives of All the Most Distinguished Chiefs, and Others, who Have Been Noted, Among the Various Indian Nations Upon the Continent. Also, a History of Their Wars; Their Manners and Customs; and the Most Celebrated Speeches of Their Orators, from Their First Being Known to Europeans to the Present Time. Likewise Exhibiting an Analysis of the Most Distinguished, as Well as Absurd Authors, who Have Written Upon the Great Question of the First Peopling of America. : [Six Lines from Bryant]O.L. Perkins, 56 Cornhill, and Hilliard, Gray & Company, 1834 - Indians of North America - 540 pages |
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... appear premature in some respects , ( to their authors , if no others , ) for the reason that there is no end to the accumulation of materials . A writer may think himself in possession of every material neces- sary for his undertaking ...
... appear premature in some respects , ( to their authors , if no others , ) for the reason that there is no end to the accumulation of materials . A writer may think himself in possession of every material neces- sary for his undertaking ...
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... appears as plain and as well authenticated as any passage of history of that period . Aristotle , or the author of a book which is generally attributed to him , speaks of an island beyond the Straits of Gibraltar ; but the passage ...
... appears as plain and as well authenticated as any passage of history of that period . Aristotle , or the author of a book which is generally attributed to him , speaks of an island beyond the Straits of Gibraltar ; but the passage ...
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... appears from Thorowgood's work , of the same opinion . Being written to for his opinion of the origin of the natives ... appear not serious in our introduction of him , what is of more importance , we believe him really to be so . And we ...
... appears from Thorowgood's work , of the same opinion . Being written to for his opinion of the origin of the natives ... appear not serious in our introduction of him , what is of more importance , we believe him really to be so . And we ...
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... appears , that an assemblage of houses , or habitations , i . e . a town , was by the natives called Canada . Cartier says , Ilz appel- lent une Ville - Canada . " Mr. Heckewelder is of much the same opinion as Charlevoix and Forster ...
... appears , that an assemblage of houses , or habitations , i . e . a town , was by the natives called Canada . Cartier says , Ilz appel- lent une Ville - Canada . " Mr. Heckewelder is of much the same opinion as Charlevoix and Forster ...
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... appears that the Lord Chief Justice Pophams had agreed to send a vessel to the aid of Chalons , which was accordingly done before the news of his being taken was known in England . For Sir Ferdinando Gorges says , " It pleased the lord ...
... appears that the Lord Chief Justice Pophams had agreed to send a vessel to the aid of Chalons , which was accordingly done before the news of his being taken was known in England . For Sir Ferdinando Gorges says , " It pleased the lord ...
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