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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... "
Poems in Two Volumes: Containing Gertrude of Wyoming and Miscellaneous Pieces - Page 130
by Thomas Campbell - 1810
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The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 560 pages
...were found at the Saltlicks on the Ohio. Their chief speaker immediately put himself into an attitnde of oratory, and with a pomp suited to what he conceived...his subject, informed him that it was a tradition ha,ule. 1 down from their fathers, ' that in ancient times a herd of these tremendous animals came...
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The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: With Numerous Illustrations

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1887 - 360 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,...handed down from their fathers. ' that in ancient times aj herd of these tremendous animals came to the I Big-bone licks, and began an universal destruction...
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Scribner's Magazine, Volume 1

Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - American periodicals - 1887 - 828 pages
...disturbed them. Jefferson gives the following tradition of the Delawares, about the " big buffalo : " " That in ancient times, a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Bigbone Licks, and commenced a universal destruction of the bear, deer, elks, buffa.. The Lenape Stone....
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The Life and Times of Gen. John Graves Simcoe, Commander of the "Queen's ...

David Breakenridge Read - History - 1890 - 348 pages
...or had heard of the animal whose bones were found on the Salt Licks on the Ohio. Their chief speaker immediately put himself into an attitude of oratory,...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...
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The Life and Times of Gen. John Graves Simcoe, Commander of the "Queen's ...

David Breakenridge Read - History - 1890 - 348 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,...
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The Iroquois Trail: Or Foot-prints of the Six Nations, in Customs ...

William Martin Beauchamp - Indians - 1891 - 182 pages
...the Salt-licks, on the Ohio. Their chief speaker immediately put himself into an attitude of oratoiy. and with a pomp suited to what he conceived the .elevation of his subject, informed him, that it was a radition handed down from their fathers, that in ancient times a herd of these tremendous animals came...
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1781-1784

Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1894 - 634 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...
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The Iroquois Trail: Or Foot-prints of the Six Nations, in Customs ...

William Martin Beauchamp - Indians - 1892 - 190 pages
...the Salt-licks, on the Ohio. Their chief speaker immediately put himrelf into an attitude of oratoiy, and with a pomp suited to what he conceived the elevation...times a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Big-bone licks, and began an universal destruction of the bear, deer, elk, buffalo, and other animals...
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The Iroquois Trail: Or Foot-prints of the Six Nations, in Customs ...

William Martin Beauchamp - Indians - 1892 - 180 pages
...Salt-licks, on the Ohio. Their chief speaker immediately put himself into an at titude of oratoiy. and with a pomp suited to what he conceived the elevation of his subject, infoimed him, that it was a radition handed down from their fathers, that in ancient times a herd of...
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Official History of the Improved Order of Red Men

George W. Lindsay, Charles C. Conley, Charles H. Litchman - Fraternal organizations - 1893 - 664 pages
...about the salt licks on the Ohio River. " The chief speaker," continues our author, Mr. Jefferson, "immediately put himself into an attitude of oratory,...to what he conceived the elevation of his subject," began and repeated as follows : " In ancient times, a herd of these tremendous animals came to the...
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