Observations on some parts of natural history : to which is prefixed an account of several remarkable vestiges of an ancient date, which have been discovered in different parts of North America. Pt. I / by Benjamin Smith Barton.

  • Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815.
Date:
[1787?]
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Credit: Observations on some parts of natural history : to which is prefixed an account of several remarkable vestiges of an ancient date, which have been discovered in different parts of North America. Pt. I / by Benjamin Smith Barton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    is watered by the Mississippi, and its nume- rous branches) relates Tome curious indances of the veneration with which they regarded the bones of their deceafed friends * ; but he fays nothing of a practice of entombing THE DEAD IN LARGE EMINENCES OR mounts, a circumftance which the good old father would not have pafled over in filence, if fuch a pra&ice had prevailed among them j for he was peculiarly atten- tive to every circumftance that regarded the religion, or the religious cuftoms of the people whom he viftted. Nor has fuch a practice been mentioned by any other traveller, either before, or fince the time of Hennipin; but I thought pro- per to mention him in particular, as he was, in fa<ft the difcoverer of an extenfive country which he has defcribed,—and as he was the firft perfon that has given the world an ac- count of above two hundred tribes of In- dians, which, before he travelled into * A new Difcovery of a vaft Country in America. By L. Hennipin. London, 1698. (