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Near Nashville, on ditto, several towns, teocallis, statues, etc. On the Canyfork of Tennesee, a circus where the triune vessel was found

Near Pulaski, a subterranean brick wall

Near Carthage, a fort, graves

On Big Harpeth river, several mounds, one is 40 feet high, a sun and moon painted yellow in a perpendicular clift of 70 feet On French broad, paintings and letters on a vertical cliff, 100 feet above the water!

In Warren county, a town with mummies, etc.

Near Brasstown, on Tennessee, the enchanted mountain with carved tracts of men and beasts

3 In Texas, at the head of river Sabine, an elleptical teocalli 6 feet high, a mound on the river Trinity, etc.

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Vermont, sculptured rocks at Bellows falls on Connecticut
Virginia, principally on the Ohio, Kenhaway and Holston
Near Abington, a circus and mound

On Clinch river, a late town, with a ditch round it, L.

On the Ohio, painted rocks near the mouth of King's creek, with figures and letters! mounds near them. Towns near Belleville, Letart's falls, Parkersburgh, Park's bottom, Gallipolis, etc.

On the Kenhawany, 105 circular temples, towns, mounds, ect. one mound is 40 feet high and 420 round

At Big Grave creek, many mounds, the largest is a conical py-
ramid surrounded by a ditch, 70 feet high, base 540 feet
round, top 180 feet

At little Grave creek, many mounds, the largest is like that of
Big Grave, but 75 feet high

At Burning Springs, sculptured hierogliphics on rocks. Many
mounds, etc. on the Guyandot, Elk river, Shenandoah, Mo-
nongahela, Fluvanna, Rivanna, etc. L.

The actual number of ancient seats of population or sites already ascertained by me, in North America, amount therefore to 541, of which 393 out of Kentucky, and 148 in Kentucky, while the ancient monuments found in those sites amount already to 1830, of which 505 in Kentucky and 1325 out of it.

If by my researches during 4 years, I have been able thus to increase the knowledge of the number of ancient sites and monuments in the single State of Kentucky, from 25 sites to 148, and from 100 monuments to 505: it is very probable that when equal industry will be exercised in the other States, that number will be more than doubled; since I entertain no doubt that 1000 sites and 4000 monuments exist still in the United States, exclusive of Mexico, besides the small burrows, and those that have been des troyed.

CATALOGUE

Of the Authors and Works consulted.

Adair, Hist. of Creeks, etc.
Adelung, Mithridates,

Adelung, Fr. Catal. of Languages,
Arrian History.

Archeologia Americana, Vol. 1.
Asiatic researches, 12 Vol.
Atwater Antiq. of Ohio
Azara, travels in Paraguay
Barrow, travels in China, etc.
Barton, Indian languages, etc.
Bartram, travels in Florida
Beck, Missouri ect.

Boone, adventures in Kentucky
Bossu, travels in Louisiana
Boudinot, Has. in the West
Breckenridge, Louisiana and memoir
Bruce, Abyssinia, etc.

Buffon, Natural History, etc.
Cabot, Discovery of North America
Campbell, Western Antiquities, etc
Carli, American Letters
Cartier, travels in Canada
Carver, travels in North America
Charlevoix, do. History of Canada,
St. Domingo, Paraguy
Clavigero, History of Mexico
Clifford, Letters on N. A Antiq.
Colden, History of the Five Nations
Colebrooke, Dissertations on India
Columbus, travels

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Diodorus, history

Douglas, History of North America Duponceau, on Amer. Lang. &c, Duprats, History of Louisiana Drake, Cincinnati

Dwight, travels

Edwards, West Indies

Edinburgh Review

Egede, Greenland

Ellis travels

Filson, Kentucky

Forster, travels and observations
Gage, travels in Mexico

Garcilago de la Vega, conquest of
Florida, his. of Peru, &c.
Gebelin, Monde primitif
Gilleland, Ohio Pilot

Grosier, Histoire de la Chine.
Gumila, Orenoko

Harmar, West Caledonia
Haywood, Tennessee

Heckenwelder, hist. of Lenapians &c.
Hearne, travels to North Sea
Hennepin, travels in North America
Henry. ditto.

Herodotus, History

Hudson, travels

Humboldt, travels, researches, &c.
Hutchins, North American Map, &c
Imlay, Letters on Kentucky

Condamine, travels in South America James, Say and Long, travels

Cook, travels

Cornelius, Memoirs

Castiglione, Viaggi in America
Cramer, Ohio Navigator
Cumming, travels in the U. S.
Cuvier geological works, &c.
Dana Western Gazetteer
Darby, Louisiana Guide, &c.
Debrizhofer, Abipones
Delisle, Monde primitif, &c.
Delametherie. Geology
Depons, Caraccas
Dictionnaire historique

D'Histoire Naturelle

Jefferson, Notes in Virginia
Jewett, Nootka

Jones, dissertations on Asia
Laraye, travels in North America
Labillardiere, Voyages
Lahontan, travels in N. America
Lavoisne, historical Atlas
Leod, Lewche Islands
Lewis and Clarke, travels
Leyden, languages of India

Loskiel, Missions of N. America
Mackenzie, travels in N. America
Madison, Memoir on Am. Antiq
Massachusetts, Historical collections

Marsden Sumatra and Malays
Meares, travels

Mellish travels and Maps
Mitchill, Dssiertations, &c.
Naigeon, voy. de Pythagore
New York Hist. Collections
North American Review
Nuttall, travels to Arkanzas
Oldmixon, North America
Officer, travels of an

Olivet, new translation of Sepher.
Origine des Loix, des Sciences et

des Arts

Pages, travels round the world

Pallas, travels in Russia &c.
Parry, travels

Pennant, Artic Zoology

Pernetty, Falkland I.

Peron, travels

Perouse, travels

Pickering, Indian languages
Pike, travels in North America
Pinkerton, Scythians, fossils, &c.
Plinius, Natural History
Pownal's Map, &c.

Proud; History of Pennsylvania
Ptolemy, Ancient Geography
Quarterly Review

Rafinesque, Manuscripts of Tellus,
Ancient history of North America,
Antiquity of North America, Ge-
neral view of the American lan-
guages, &c.
Raleigh, travels

Ramsay, History of Carolina
Reland, American languages
Robin, travels in Louisiana
Rogers, North America
Rollin. Ancient History
Romans' Florida

Sanford, History of the U. States

Shermerhorn state of Indians in 1812

Schoolcraft, travels

Sibley, travels

Smith, Narrative

Smith, History of New York

Southey, History of Brazil
Sullivan, History of Maine
Thomas, travels

Tonti and Laralle, travels
Traditions (in Ms. of the Shawa
nees, Ottawas, &c.

Ulloa, travels and researches
Universal History

Valancey, Antiq. of Ireland
Vanegas, History of Californe
Vancouver, Travels
Vaetl, on Languages
Verazanz, travels
Vespucius, travels
Volney, various works
Wilford, researches
Winslow, comments
Winthrop, History
Winterbotham, America
Zuniga, conquest of Peru.

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THE

HISTORY OF KENTUCKY.

CHAP. I.

Discovery and Settlement.

CONSIDERING history as a record of past events, it becomes to the memory, a store-house of facts; whence, by reference, and induction, the mind may obtain much knowledge for future úse; and hence its importance to mankind. In order therefore, that I may contribute means to this end, I have undertaken to write a history of Kentucky. A state, whose name, has been derived, by its present race of inhabitants, from that of a long, deep channeled, and clifty river, called by the Indians, Kan-tuck-kee! which they pronounced with a strong emphasis—and extended to the adjacent forests.

The territory now known by the name of Kentucky, is much enlarged, extending from latitude 36 degrees, and 30 minutes, north of the equator, along the great and turbid river Mississippi, and her fair and gentle connexion, the Ohio, on the west, and north; and with the high and rugged top of the Laurel hill, or Cumberland mountain, on the south-eastward, as far as the Big Sandy river; which terminates its northeastern boundary, in its whole extent.

The exterior form of this extensive country is reducable to no mathematical definition; its sides are unequal in length; and its line of boundary exceedingly irregular. Its extreme points east, and west, embrace about 7 degrees of longitude; and its extent from north to south, about 2 degrees, and 40° minutes of latitude.

The superficial content of the whole, is supposed to be fifty thousand square miles; it lies in the fifth and sixth climates;

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