The Lifted and Subsided Rocks of America: With Their Influences on the Oceanic, Atmospheric and Land Currents, and the Distribution of RacesTrübner & Company, 1870 - 228 páginas |
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American Indians amongst ancient Apala Apalachian chain Atlantic base boulders canoes Caribbean Sea cataclysm causes caverns central ridge civilisation coast continent convulsions degrading deluge descended earth effects Equatorial Current exist explosions feet flood force formed fractured geological geologists GEORGE CATLIN globe gneiss grandeur granite crust Grenada Gulf of Mexico Gulf Stream heat heavals hundred miles igneous igneous mass inclines Lake lateral pressure lesser Antilles lifted Mandan Mandan village miles in thickness Mississippi Missouri mode molten mass molten matter moun mountain chains mountain elevations mountain ranges mountain upheavals mystery North O-kee-pa ocean orographic Pacific Ocean Palenque phenomena plains plications portions present probably produced proofs races rain-falls raised ravines rising rivers rocks rocky crust Rocky Mountains salt Schoolcraft sedimentary beds seen sides singular sinking South America stand strata stupendous submontagne subsidence summits surface tains theories thousand tions Toltecs tribes uplifted Uxmal valleys vast Venezuela volcanic waves Yellow Stone Yucatan
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Página 221 - Now, my dear and esteemed friend, this charge, made by such a man as Schoolcraft, and ' under the authority of the government of the United States' to stand in the libraries of the scientific institutions of the whole civilized world, to which they are being sent as presents from your government, is calculated, not only to injure your hard-earned good name, but to destroy the value of your precious works, through all ages, unless you take immediate steps with the government of your country to counteract...
Página 188 - So loving, so tractable, so peaceable are these people," says Columbus in his journal, " that I swear to your Majesties, there is not in the world a better nation, nor a better land. They love their neighbors as themselves; and their discourse is ever sweet and gentle, and accompanied with a smile ; and though it is true that they are naked, yet their manners are decorous and praiseworthy.
Página 182 - I have visited in North and South and Central America, every tribe has related to me, more or less distinctly, their traditions of the Deluge, in which one, or three, or eight persons were saved above the waters, on the top of a high mountain; and also their peculiar and respective theories of the Creation.
Página 184 - Other tribes were created under the water; and at least one-half of the tribes in America represent that man was first created under the ground, or in the rocky caverns of the mountains.
Página 156 - I am more struck with your mode of determining the sinking and rising transits of rocks, and the probable dates and extent of cataclysmic disasters. I believe your tests are reliable, and perfectly justify you for making the contemplated voyage to the Lesser Antilles. The subject is one of vast importance to science, and if I were a younger man I would join you in the expedition at once.
Página 182 - ... theories of the Creation. Some of these tribes, living at the base of the Rocky Mountains, and in the plains of Venezuela, and the Pampa del Sacramento in South America, make annual pilgrimages to the fancied summits where the antediluvian species were saved in canoes or otherwise, and, under the mysterious regulations of their medicine (mystery) men, tender their prayers and sacrifices to the Great Spirit, to ensure their exemption from a similar catastrophe.
Página 156 - I believe your tests are reliable, and perfectly justify you for making the contemplated voyage to the Lesser Antilles. The subject is one of vast importance to science, and if I were a younger man I would join you in the expedition at once ! " I believe your discoveries will throw a great deal of light on the important subject of the effect of cataclysms on the distribution of races. " I return to you with this the papers you left with me, and I enclose you a memorandum for your voyage, which may...
Página 4 - In this tremendous catastrophe, probably the most stupendous that ever took place on the surface of the globe, the peninsula of Yucatan, with its splendid Aztec cities, sank, and since has partially risen, leaving the two grand sunken estuaries, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea ; into which the two subterranean rivers, from the constant overflow of their vast cisterns under the...
Página 221 - ... to injure your hard-earned good name, but to destroy the value of your precious works through all ages, unless you take immediate steps with the Government of your country to counteract its effects. I have often conversed with our illustrious traveler in America, the Prince Maximilian, of...