 | 1810 - 590 pages
...They seem to mark the progress of population, in the first ages after die dispersion ; rising wherever the posterity of Noah came. Whether under the form of a Mound in Scandinavia and Russia; 91 Barrow in England; a Cairn in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland; of of those heaps' which the modern... | |
 | 1811 - 566 pages
...of those heaps which the modern Greeks and Turks call tefic ; or lastly, in the more artificial form of a pyramid in Egypt ; they had universally the same origin. They present the simplest and subJimest monument which any generation could raise over the bodies of their progenitors ; calculated... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - Asia - 1813 - 512 pages
...in the first ages after the dispersion ; rising wherever the posterity of Noah came. Whether tinder the form of a mound in Scandinavia and Russia; a barrow in England ; a cairn in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland ; or of those heaps which the modern Greeks and Turks call tepe } or lastly,... | |
 | 664 pages
...They seem to mark the progress of mankind, in the first ages after the dispersions, rising wherever the posterity of Noah came. " Whether under the form of a Mound, in Scandinavia, in Russia, or in North America; a Barrow, in England ; a Cairn, in Wales, in Scotland, and in Ireland;... | |
 | 1821 - 702 pages
...They seem to mark the progress of mankind, in the first ages after the dispersions, rising wherever the posterity of Noah came. " Whether under the form of a Mound, in Scandinavia, in Russia, or in North America; a Barrow, in England; a Cairn, in Wales, in Scotland, and in Ireland;... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - United States - 1820 - 484 pages
...They seem to mark the progress of population in the first ages, after the dispersion, rising wherever the posterity of Noah came. Whether- under the form...heaps, which the modern Greeks and Turks call Tepe i lastly, in the more artificial shape of a pyramid in Egypt ; they had universally the same origin.... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - America - 1823 - 374 pages
...They seem to mark the progress of population in the first ages, after the dispersion, rising wherever the posterity of Noah came. Whether under the form...universally the same origin. They present the simplest and suhlimest monuments, which any generation could raise over the bodies »f their progenitors; calculated... | |
 | Thomas Walker Horsfield - Genealogy - 1824 - 496 pages
...They seem to mark the progress of mankind in the first ages after the dispersion ; rising wherever the posterity of Noah came. Whether under the form of a Mound, in Scandinavia, in Russia, or in North America ; a Sorrow jn England ; a Cairn in Wales, in Scotland, or in Ireland... | |
 | William Grainge - Mowbray, Vale of (England) - 1859 - 406 pages
...They seem to mark the progress of population in the first ages after the dispersion— rising wherever the posterity of Noah came. Whether under the form...Scandinavia and Russia ; a barrow in England ; a cairn in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland ; or of those heaps which the modern Greeks call Tepe ; or lastly, of... | |
 | 1867 - 276 pages
...Wales and Scotland, or in Ireland; or of those Iieaps which the modern Greeks and Turks call Tepe ; or lastly, in the more artificial shape of a pyramid in Egypt, they had universally the same origin." (Vol. i., p. 277.) From such authorities we may accept as conclusive, that from the mound or cairn... | |
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If there exists any thing of former timer, which may afford monuments of antediluvian manners, it is this mode of burial. — They seem to mark the progress of population in the first ages, after the dispersion, rising wherever the posterity of Noah came.... 
