 | Albert James Pickett - Alabama - 1851 - 426 pages
...grand highway was about fifty III- yards wide, sunk a little below the common level, and the 1776 J earth thrown on each side, making a bank of about...summit, with charred wood around them, which would show 3 I! a ° O ao »§ 2 a •5.3 P K i o f that they, too, were used for sacrifices. They are thirty... | |
 | Albert James Pickett - Alabama - 1851 - 440 pages
...called our attention to a very remarkable group of mounds on the lands of Judge Messier, twenty -one miles in a southeastern direction from Fort Gaines....summit, with charred wood around them, which would show that they, too, were used for sacrifices. They are thirty feet CHAPTER high. m " No. 3. A wall of earth... | |
 | George White - Reference - 1854 - 750 pages
...sacrificial mound, seventy feet in height, and six hundred feet in circumference. This mound is covered with large forest trees, from four to five hundred...state, was passed. ." No. 2, 2. Like the former, have earth stones on the summit, with charred wood around them, which would show that they, too, were used... | |
 | George White - Reference - 1855 - 872 pages
...sacrificial mound, seventy feet in height, and six hundred feet in circumference. This mound is covered with large forest trees, from four to five hundred...state, was passed. " No. 2, 2. Like the former, have earth stones on the summit, with charred •wood around them, which would show that they, too, were... | |
 | George White - Reference - 1855 - 1006 pages
...sacrificial mound, seventy feet in height, and six hundred feet in circumference. This mound is covered with large forest trees, from four to five hundred...feet, and at its lower portion a bed of human bones, rive feet in thickness, and in a perfectly decomposed state, was passed. t "No. 2,2. Like the former,... | |
 | George White - Reference - 1855 - 844 pages
...sacrificial mound, seventy feet in height, and six hundred feet in circumference. This mound is covered with large forest trees, from four to five hundred...old. A shaft has been sunk in the centre to the depth ofsixty feet, and at its lower portion a bed of human bones, five feet in thickness, and in a perfectly... | |
 | Albert James Pickett - Alabama - 1896 - 686 pages
...sacrificial mound, seventy feet in height and six hundred feet in circumference. This mound is covered with large forest trees, from four to five hundred years old. A shaft has been sunk in the center to the depth 1847 of sixty feet, and at its lower portion a bed of human bones, five feet in... | |
 | Horatio Bardwell Cushman - Chickasaw Indians - 1899 - 838 pages
...circumference, and was covered with large forest trees, estimated to be, from appearance, from 400 to 500 years old. A shaft has been sunk in the centre to the depth of 60 feet, and at its lower portion a bed of human bones, five feet in 'thickness, and in a perfectly... | |
 | George White - Georgia - 2011 - 852 pages
...sacrificial mound, seventy feet in height^ and six hundred feet in circumference. This mound is covered with large forest trees, from four to five hundred...state, was passed. "No. 2, 2. Like the former, have earth stones on the summit, with charred wood around them, which would show that they, too, were used... | |
 | Albert James Pickett - History - 2013 - 780 pages
...sacrificial mound, seventy feet in height and six hundred feet in circumference. This mound is covered with large forest trees, from four to five hundred years old. A shaft has been sunk in the center to the depth 1847 of sixty feet, and at its lower portion a bed of human bones, five feet in... | |
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No. 1. The large sacrificial mound, seventy feet in height and six hundred feet in circumference. This mound is cover1847 ed with large forest trees, from four to five hundred years old. A shaft has been sunk in the centre to the depth of sixty feet,... 