American antiquities, and discoveries in the West

420 Pages·2009·22.51 MB·English

by  Priest, Josiah, 1788-1851

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AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES
AND
DISCOVERIEvS IN THE WEST
BEING AN EXHIBITION OF THE EVIDENCE
THAT AN ANCIENT POPULATION OF PABTIAI.LT CIVILIZED NATION!
DIFFERINGENTIRELY FROMTHOSEOF THEPRESENT INDIANSPEOPLED
AMERICA MANY CENTURIES BEFORE ITS DISCOVERY BY
COLUMBUS,ANDINQIHRIESINTOTHEIRORIGIN, \
WITH A
COPIOUS DESCRIPTION
OPMANY OFTHEIR STUPENDOUS WORKS, NOW INRUINS,
WKTH CONJECTURES CONCERNINGWHAT MAY HAVE
BECOME OF THEM.
CompiledfromTi*avelg, Antbentic Sources^ and the
Researcbes of Antiquarian Societies.
BY JOSIAH PRIEST
[ Fourth Edition. ]
ALBANY:
PRINTED BY HOFFMAN & WHITE.
1834.
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AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES
AND
DISCOVERIES IN THE WEST
BEING AN EXHIBITION OF THE EVIDENCE
THAT AN ANCIENT POPUt.ATION OF PARTIALLY CIVILIZED NATIONS
DIFrERINOENTIRELYFROMTHOSEOF THEPRESENT INDIANSPEOPLED
AMERICA MANY CENTURIES BEFORE ITS DISCOVERY BY
COLUMBUS,ANDINQUIRIESINTOTHEIRORIGIN, s
WITH A
COPIOUS DESCRIPTIOIV
OPMANY OFTHEIR STUPENDOUS WORKS, NOW INRUINS
WITH CONJECTURES CONCERNING WHAT MAT HAVE
BECOME OF THEM.
CompiledfromTi-avelg, Authentic Sources, and the
Researches of Antiquarian Societies,
BY JOSIAH PRIEST
[ Fourth Edition. ]
ALBANY:
PRINTED BY HOFFMAN & WHITE.
1834.
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