| J. Kent Minichiello, Anthony W. White - Nature - 2001 - 460 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,...tradition handed down from their fathers, "That in antient times a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Big-bone licks, and began an universal... | |
| John D. Clifford, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque - America - 2000 - 220 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,...tradition handed down from their fathers, "That in antient times a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Big-bone licks, and began an universal... | |
| Joseph A. Leo Lemay - History - 2001 - 494 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,...tradition handed down from their fathers, "That in antient times a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Big-bone licks, and began an universal... | |
| Claudine Cohen - Nature - 2002 - 334 pages
...was governor of Virginia, a visiting Indian delegation told him of a story shared among the tribes: 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,... | |
| Michael P. Branch - Nature - 2004 - 444 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,...times a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Bigbone licks, and began an universal destruction of the bear, deer, elks, buffaloes, and other animals,... | |
| C.S. Rafinesque - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 282 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,...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,... | |
| Stanley Hedeen - History - 2008 - 202 pages
...they knew about the large animal whose remains had been found at Big Bone Lick: Their chief speaker immediately put himself into an attitude of oratory,...conceived the elevation of his subject, informed him [Jefferson] that it was a tradition handed down from their fathers, "That in antient times a herd of... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1894 - 728 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,...the elevation of his subject, informed him that it wras a tradition handed down from their fathers, ' that in ancient times a herd of these tremendous... | |
| Robert Southey - 800 pages
...animal, the chief speaker immediately put himself into an oratorical attitude, and, with a pomp suited to the elevation of his subject, informed him, that it...from their fathers, that in ancient times a herd of them came to the Big-bone-licks, and began an universal destruction of the bears, deer, elks, buffaloes,... | |
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