Biography and History of the Indians of North America;: Comprising a General Account of Them, and Details in the Lives of All the Most Distinguished Chiefs, and Others, who Have Been Noted, Among the Various Indian Nations Upon the Continent. Also, a History of Their Wars; Their Manners and Customs; and the Most Celebrated Speeches of Their Orators, from Their First Being Known to Europeans to the Present Time. Likewise Exhibiting an Analysis of the Most Distinguished, as Well as Absurd Authors, who Have Written Upon the Great Question of the First Peopling of America. : [Six Lines from Bryant]O.L. Perkins, 56 Cornhill, and Hilliard, Gray & Company, 1834 - Indians of North America - 540 pages |
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... PRESENT TIME . LIKEWISE EXHIBITING AN ANALYSIS OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED , AS WELL AS ABSURD AUTHORS , WHO HAVE WRITTEN UPON THE GREAT QUESTION OF THE FIRST PEOPLING OF AMERICA . They waste us , ay , like April snow , In the warm noon ...
... PRESENT TIME . LIKEWISE EXHIBITING AN ANALYSIS OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED , AS WELL AS ABSURD AUTHORS , WHO HAVE WRITTEN UPON THE GREAT QUESTION OF THE FIRST PEOPLING OF AMERICA . They waste us , ay , like April snow , In the warm noon ...
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... present . When 400 pages of the second edition were printed , there remained a large amount of valuable matter untouched ; therefore forty pages more were added , and this was the extent of that edition . Even this extension did not ...
... present . When 400 pages of the second edition were printed , there remained a large amount of valuable matter untouched ; therefore forty pages more were added , and this was the extent of that edition . Even this extension did not ...
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... present time , to endeavor to explain by what means the inhabitants got from the old to the new world . To act , therefore , in unison with many of our predecessors , we will begin as far back as they have done , and so shall commence ...
... present time , to endeavor to explain by what means the inhabitants got from the old to the new world . To act , therefore , in unison with many of our predecessors , we will begin as far back as they have done , and so shall commence ...
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... present . He made a third attempt , and succeeded . " S Magnanimity . - A hunter , in his wanderings for game , fell among the back settlements of Virginia , and by reason of the inclemency of the weather , was induced to seek refuge at ...
... present . He made a third attempt , and succeeded . " S Magnanimity . - A hunter , in his wanderings for game , fell among the back settlements of Virginia , and by reason of the inclemency of the weather , was induced to seek refuge at ...
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... present to a lady of some fine oranges which he had just brought from " the sugar islands , " gave them to an Indian in his employ to carry to her . Lest he should not perform the office punctually , he wrote a letter to her , to be ...
... present to a lady of some fine oranges which he had just brought from " the sugar islands , " gave them to an Indian in his employ to carry to her . Lest he should not perform the office punctually , he wrote a letter to her , to be ...
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