Illustrations of the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians : with letters and notes written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing ; with 360 engravings, from the author's original paintings . or the water to run into, which soon fills it to the levelof the ground. To these sinks, the waters lying on the surface of the prairies, are con-tinually draining, and in them lodging their vegetable deposits ; which, after alapse of years, fill them up to the surface with a rich soil, which throws upau unusual growth
Illustrations of the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians : with letters and notes written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing ; with 360 engravings, from the author's original paintings . or the water to run into, which soon fills it to the levelof the ground. To these sinks, the waters lying on the surface of the prairies, are con-tinually draining, and in them lodging their vegetable deposits ; which, after alapse of years, fill them up to the surface with a rich soil, which throws upau unusual growth of grass and herbage; forming conspicuous circleswhich arrest the eye of the traveller, and are calculated to excite h>s surprisefor ages to come. Many travellers who have penetrated not quite far enough into theWestern country to see the habits of these animals, and the manner in whichihese mysterious circles are made; but who have seen the prairies strewedwith their bleached bones, and have beheld these strange circles, whichoften occur in groups, and of different sizes—have come home with beautifuland ingenious theories (which must needs be made), for the origin of thesesingular and unaccountable appearances, which, for want of a rational ^£ia>. -p^:^- -Sis^.
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