| John Kilbourn - 1819 - 198 pages
...not so numerous. The mounds vary, in magnitude, vastly from each other, and somewhat so in •shape; some are of a conical figure, ending on the top in...its vertex, in a plane coincident with its base, or \\k 1 the horizon. Others again are of a semiglobular s:,a[,c. Of this latter description is that standing... | |
| John Kilbourn - 1821 - 218 pages
...are not so numerous. The mounds vary, in magnitude, vastly from each other, and somewhat so in shape; some are of a conical figure, ending on the top in...others are of the same form, except that they present a flat area on the top, like a cone cut oft' at some distance from its vertex, in a plane coincident... | |
| Sidney Edwards Morse - 1822 - 706 pages
...the forts, as they are called, arc not so numerous. The mounds vary greatly in shape and magnitude : some are of a conical figure, ending on the top in...others are of the same form except that they present a flat area on the top, like a cone cut off at some distance from its vertex, by a plane parallel with... | |
| Sidney Edwards Morse - 1822 - 706 pages
...numerous. Tl»e mounds vary greatly in shape and magnitude : some are x>fa conical figure, ending on (he top in a point, and as steep on the sides, as the...others are of the same form except that they present a flat area on the top, like a cone cut off at some distance from its vertex, by a plane parallel with... | |
| Charles Hulbert - 1823 - 374 pages
...in magnitude, vastly from each other, and somewhat so in shape ; some are of a conical figure, endmg on the top in a point, and as steep on the sides as...others are of the same form, except that they present a flat area on the top, like a cone cut off at some distance from its vertex, in a plane coincident with... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1823 - 160 pages
...territories, and terminate in Mexico. The mounds vary in magnitude vastly from each other, and also in shape. Some are of a conical figure, ending on the top in a point, and as steep on the sides as the dirt could be made to lie ; others are of the same shape except that they present a flat area on the... | |
| John Kilbourn - 1831 - 354 pages
...not so numerous. The mounds vary, in magnitude, vastly from each other, and' somewhat so in shape; some are 'of a conical figure, ending on the top in...others are of the same form, except that they present a flat area on the top, like a cone cut off at some distance from its vertex, in a plane coincident with... | |
| Warren Jenkins - 1837 - 530 pages
...so numerous. The mounds vary, in magpitude, vastly from each other, and somewhat so in shape ; gome are of a conical figure, ending on the top in a point,...others are of the same form, except that they present a flit area on the top, like a cone cut off at some distance from its vertex, in a plane coincident with... | |
| Warren Jenkins - 1837 - 536 pages
...not so numerous. The mounds vary, in magnitude, vastly from each other, and somewhat so in shape ; some are of a conical figure, ending on the top in...others are of the same form, except that they present aflat area on the top, like a cone cut off at some distance from its vertex, in a plane coincident... | |
| Warren Jenkins - 1839 - 548 pages
...so numerous. The mounds vary, in magnitude, vastly from each other, and somewhat so in shape ; a >me are of a conical figure, ending on the top in a point,...others are of the same form, except that they present a flat area on the top, like a cone cut off at some distance from its vertex, in a plane coincident with... | |
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