This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...or grave, four feet deep, eighteen feet broad, and seventy feet long, in which had been buried several human bodies. The bones, which had advanced very far towards decomposition, indicated that they belonged to individuals rather above the ordinary size. The heads were placed towards the east, and the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...or grave, four feet deep, eighteen feet broad, and seventy feet long, in which had been buried several human bodies. The bones, which had advanced very far towards decomposition, indicated that they belonged to individuals rather above the ordinary size. The heads were placed towards the east, and the skeletons occupied a reclining posture. In this connection were found patches of cloth of a coarse texture, and more or less carbonized; two copper vessels, formed like a spoonbowl; a quantity of beads which evidently had been strung and wound around the neck and head of the secondly, the bones of an attendant; and thirdly, in an excavation in one comer, the bones of a horse. There were also found electrum beautifully chased, two silver vases containing drinking cups, four amphora in earthen-ware which had held Thasian wine, and three large bronze cauldrons, containing mutton bones. There was sufficient evidence to show that suits of clothes had been hung from the walls, and even fragments of musical instruments were discovered. The antiquity of this tomb has been estimated at only 400-350 B. C. (Rawlinson's note on Herodotus.) It must be confessed that these Scythic burial rites have a strong resemblance to those of the Mound-builders. " Second Report on Geology of Indiana," p. 238. f " Missouri Democrat," April 17, 1869. N recumbent warrior; and also a quantity of small seashells of the same character as those found at Grave Creek. Mr. E. O. Dunning has recently explored what is known as the Lick Creek Mound, in East Tennessee. "I began," he states, "my operations on the east side nearest the 'Dry Creek, ' as it is called, by digging a trench ten feet wide to the centre. The surface earth was composed of...
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