 | Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - Science - 1815 - 616 pages
...During the revolution a delegation of warriors from the Delaware tribe told the governor of Virginia that it was a tradition handed down from their fathers,...times, a herd of these tremendous animals came to the big bone licks and began an universal destruction of the bear, deer, elk, buffaloes, and other animals... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - Readers - 1820 - 226 pages
...of the animal whose bones were found at the Salt licks en the Ohio. 9. The chief speaker imnwdiately put himself into an attitude of oratory, and with...times, a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Big-bone-licks, and began an universal destruction of the bears, deer, elks, buffaloes, and other animals,... | |
 | James Wallis Eastburn, Robert Charles Sands - King Philip's War, 1675-1676 - 1820 - 378 pages
...An Indian chief, of the Delaware tribe, who visited the Governor of Virginia, during the revolution, informed him " that it was a tradition handed down...times a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Bick-bone-Iicks, and began an universal destruction of the bear, deer, elk, buffalo, and other animals... | |
 | Daniel Blowe - Canada - 1820 - 788 pages
...the governor of Virginia during the American revolution, is recorded in the following words : — " That in ancient times a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Big-bone licks, on the the banks of the Ohio, and began a universal destruction of the huffaloes, deer,... | |
 | Frederick Butler - United States - 1821 - 474 pages
...or had heard, of the animal whose bones were found at the Saltlicks on the Ohio. Their chief speaker immediately put himself into an attitude of oratory,...ancient times a herd of these tremendous animals came to theBigbone licks, and began an universal destruction of the other animals, particularly, the bea'rs.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1821 - 254 pages
...or had heard of the animal whose hones were found at the Saltlicks on the Ohio. Their chief speaker immediately put himself into an attitude of oratory,...pomp suited to what he conceived the elevation of his suhject, informed him, that it was a tradition handed down from their fathers, that in ancient times... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1822 - 356 pages
...An Indian chief, of the Delaware tribe, who visited the Governor of Virginia, during the revolution, informed him, ' that it was a tradition handed down...times a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Bick-bone licks, and began an universal destruction of the bear, deer, elk, buffalo, and other animals... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1822 - 352 pages
...their fathers, that in ancient times a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Bick-bone licks, and began an universal destruction of the bear, deer, elk, buffalo, and other animals which had been created for the use of the Indians. That the great Man above, looking down and seeing this,... | |
 | Martin MacDermot - English literature - 1824 - 604 pages
...Indian chief, of the Deli-ware tribe, who visited the Governor of Virginia, during the revolution, informed him, ' that it was a tradition handed down...times, a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Bickbone Licks, and began an universal destruction of the bear, deer, elk, buffalo, and other animals,... | |
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That in ancient times a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Big-bone licks, and began an universal destruction of the bear, deer, elks, buffaloes, and other animals which had been created for the use of the Indians... 
