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Identifier: magazineofamericv19stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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es of the leaders and most distinguished inhabitants. The rest of the people erected then-wigwams as near to the dwelling of their chief as possible * Conquest of Florida ag ?aSes129. 317, 241. According to L.. . -re about eighteen to twenty-five feethigh. Prehistoric Times, Lubbock, page 273 38o ANCIENT SOCIETY IN TENNESSEE A careful consideration of these features with a map in hand, showingthe present appearance and condition of any one of the many groups ofancient earthworks in Middle Tennessee—a group on the Harpeth River,or the works near Lebanon, Tennessee, or in Sumner County, Tennessee—will readily indicate the striking similarity of these remains to the ancientfortified towns described, and, indeed, will be conclusive of the fact thatthese earthworks are simply the remains of towns and villages, similar tothose through which De Soto and his army passed in 1540-41, and thenfound active with busy life. The long lines of earth that outlined the old walls with their well-se-
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v\ Z ::: ..- > -■■■■§ Section ofearih. line, Section of Urge-mound Low ■mounia GROUND PLAN OF FORTIFIED VILLAGE IN SUMNER COUNTY. lected openings and projections, the ditches, the raised foundation mound,or pyramid of the chiefs house—perhaps the mound that supported therude temple or altar of worship—the rows of graves or burial mounds, ofthe ancient cemetery will still be found. Sometimes the outlines of thelow circular platforms upon which the common houses or wigwams wereplaced may be seen, as in the Lebanon group. The caciques house stood near the shore upon a very high mound made by hand forstrength.—Gentlemen of Elvas. Historical Col. of La., Part II. page 123 ; see also Idem—Biechna, page 105. For description of fortified villages and walled towns, see Gentlemen ofElvas. Historical Col. La., Part II., pages 157, 158, 173 ; also La Vega, Conquest of Florida,Irving, pages 261, 262. ANCIENT SOCIETY IN TENNESSEE 381 A ground plan of the group of mound

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