... that, after being transferred through several tribes, from one to another, he was at length carried over the mountains west of the Missouri to a river which runs westwardly; that these bones abounded there; and that the natives described to him the... The Stockton bee: or, Monthly miscellany - Página 401795Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Thomas Jefferson - 1801 - 402 páginas
...the mountains of the Miflburi to a river which runs weilwardly з {hat thefe bones abounded there ; and that the natives defcribed to him the animal to...in the northern parts of their country ; from which defcription he judged it to be an elephant. Bones of the fame kind have been lately found, fome feet... | |
| William Granger - 1802 - 672 páginas
...mountains weft of the Miflburi to a river which runs wefiwardly ; that thefe bones abounded there ; and that the natives defcribed to him the animal to which they belonged as ftill cxifting in the northern parts of their country ; from which defcription he judged it to be an elephant.... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 388 páginas
...abounded there, and that the natives described to him the animal to which they belonged as still existing in the northern parts of their country ; from which description he judged it to be an elephant. Bones of the same kind have been lately found, some feet below the surface of the earth, in salines... | |
| Charles Hulbert - 1823 - 374 páginas
...abounded there ; and that the natives described to him the animal to which they belonged as still existing in the northern parts of their country; from which description he judged it to be an elephant. Bones of the same kind have been lately found some feet helow the surface of the earth, in salines... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1832 - 296 páginas
...abounded there, and that the natives described to him the animal to which they belonged as still existing in the northern parts of their country ; from which description he judged it to he an elephant. Bones of the same kind have been lately found, some feet below the surface of the earth,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 628 páginas
...abounded there, and that the natives described to him the animal to which they belonged as still existing in the northern parts of their country ; from which description he judged it to be an elephant. Bones of the same kind have been lately found, some feet below the surface of the earth, in salines... | |
| Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences - 1877 - 416 páginas
...the natives described to him the animal to which they belonged as still existing in the northern part of their country, from which description he judged it to be an elephant." A recent writer in a newspaperf thus speaks of the Big Bone Lick : After mentioning the fact that when... | |
| J. Gass - 1877 - 46 páginas
...the natives described to him the animal to which they belonged as still existing in the northern part of their country, from which description he judged it to be an elephant." A recent writer in a newspaperf thus speaks of the Big Bone Lick : After mentioning the fact that when... | |
| Henry C. Mercer - 1885 - 116 páginas
...abounded there, and that the natives described to him the animal to which they belonged as still existing in the northern parts of their country, from which description he judged it to be an elephant." Further, in support of his theory, he gives an Indian tradition of a great monster known as the Big... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 634 páginas
...abounded there, and that the natives described to him the animal to which they belonged as still existing in the northern parts of their country ; from which description he judged it to be an elephant. Bones of the same kind have been lately found, some feet below the surface of the earth, in salines... | |
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