Indian Remains in Southern Georgia: Address Delivered Before the Georgia Historical Society, on Its Twentieth Anniversary, February 12, 1859Press of J.M. Cooper & Company, 1859 - 25 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 14 - Appearances certainly indicate that it has derived both origin and growth from the accustomary collection of bones, and deposition of them together ; that the first collection had been deposited on the common surface of the earth, a few stones put over it, and then a covering of earth, that the second had been laid on this, had covered more or less of it in proportion to the number of bones, and was then also covered with earth ; and so on.
الصفحة 3 - I have sat daily in sight of that picture for now nearly threescore years ; during that time my companions have dropped off, one after another, — all who were my seniors, all who were my contemporaries, and many, or most of those who were younger than myself; more than one generation has passed away, and there the figures in the picture have remained unchanged! I look at them till I sometimes think that they are the realities, and we but shadows...
الصفحة 24 - Alas ! for them — their day is o'er. Their fires are out from hill and shore; No more for them the wild deer bounds, The plough is on their hunting grounds; The pale man's axe rings through their woods, The pale man's sail skims o'er their floods, Their pleasant springs are dry ; Their children — look, by power oppressed, Beyond the mountains of the west, Their children go -— to die.
الصفحة 13 - Allelujah and lamentation, slowly proceed to the place of general interment, whe're they place the coffins in order, forming a pyramid ; * and lastly, cover all over with earth, which raises a conical hill or mount. Then they return to town in order of solemn procession, concluding the day with a festival, which is called the feast of the dead.
الصفحة 13 - ... purified by the air, having provided a curiously wrought chest or coffin, fabricated of bones and splints, they place all the bones therein; it is then deposited in the bone-house, a building erected for that purpose in every town. And when this house is full, a general solemn funeral takes place; the nearest kindred or friends of the deceased, on a day appointed, repair to the bone-house, take up the respective coffins, and following one another in order of seniority, the nearest relations and...
الصفحة 13 - As soon as a person is dead they erect a scaffold eighteen or twenty feet high, in a grove adjacent to the town, where they lay the corpse, lightly covered with a mantle; here it is suffered to remain, visited and protected by the friends and relations, until the flesh becomes putrid, so as easily to part from the bones, then undertakers, who make it their business, carefully strip the flesh from the bones, wash and cleanse them, and when dry and purified by the air, having provided a curiously wrought...
الصفحة 4 - But how shortlived is the immortality which the works of our hands can confer ! The noblest monuments of art, that the world has ever seen, are covered with the soil of twenty centuries. The works of the age of Pericles, lie at the foot of the Acropolis in indiscriminate ruin.
الصفحة 7 - neath Ilium's walls, Had lowly laid thee, A mighty name in the Atridan halls Thou wouldst have made thee ! Then hadst thou pitched thy...
الصفحة 5 - ... dignified with the name of monument. Tribes, who rely on the bow and arrow for their means of subsistence; who cultivate the earth by loosening the soil with the scapula of a stag or a flint spade ; who are completely erratic in their habits and customs ; and who put up, as a shelter from the elements, buildings of the slightest and most perishable materials, cannot be expected to have left very extensive or striking monumental traces of their past history. This will...
الصفحة 6 - Urns," so named from the quantity of funeral urns that have been found there. It is now in a very decayed state. The practice of raising a great mound over the dead seems to have been almost universal. The Persians raised a mound at Aconithus over Artachies, the superintendent of the canal at Athos, which still exists, a memorial of Persian usage and of the fidelity of Herodotus as an historian.