Archives of aboriginal knowledgeContaining all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . n Newberry district, and alive in 1809, travelled, in 1758, a few hundred mileaamong the Indians west of the Alleghanies. He found several white men, Scotch and Irish, who said they hadlived as traders among the Indians of those regions for twenty years; a few for forty or fifty, and one sixty of them said he had upwards of seventy children and gran
Archives of aboriginal knowledgeContaining all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . n Newberry district, and alive in 1809, travelled, in 1758, a few hundred mileaamong the Indians west of the Alleghanies. He found several white men, Scotch and Irish, who said they hadlived as traders among the Indians of those regions for twenty years; a few for forty or fifty, and one sixty of them said he had upwards of seventy children and grandchildren in the nation. If these stories aretrue, the oldest of these traders must have taken up his abode among these Indians,400 miles west of Charleston,before the close of the seventeenth century, when the white population of Carolina extended scarcely twentymiles from the sea-coast. Ramsay, Vol. I., p. 208. * Journals of Conncii, Vols. X., XII. 160 ANTIQUITIES. one-fourth broad, and one and a half inches thick, and at the right hand comer ahollowed stone, on which these implements were formed by continual attrition. Nearthis is a fragment of a tube of stone, perforated and formed with as much accuracy asif turned in a The above is a rude outline of this tube or pipe, and of its exact dimensions. In Plate 16, Fig. A, are specimens of the pots or vases which were washed up bythe flood in the Congaree River, in August, 1852. The water, during this freshet, rosein this river six feet above the great freshet of 1840; and will long be remembered forits sweeping destruction, and the loss of human life. It surpassed, too, the freshet of1796, popularly called The Yazoo Freshet. But the most striking evidence of theunexampled rise of waters in this stream, is the uncovering of the numerous graves ofthe Oongaree Indians (as is supposed), and the disclosure of their remains by thewaters of this flood. These nations would select their place of burial in a spot whichthey believ
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