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. 3 Vermont, sculptured rocks at Bellows falls on Connecticut 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- At little Grave creek, many mounds, the largest is like that of At Burning Springs, sculptured hierogliphics on rocks. Many 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, Fr. Catal. of Languages, Archeologia Americana, Vol. 1. Boone, adventures in Kentucky Buffon, Natural History, etc. 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 Garcilago de la Vega, conquest of Grosier, Histoire de la Chine. Harmar, West Caledonia Heckenwelder, hist. of Lenapians &c. Herodotus, History Hudson, travels Humboldt, travels, researches, &c. Condamine, travels in South America James, Say and Long, travels Cook, travels Cornelius, Memoirs Castiglione, Viaggi in America D'Histoire Naturelle Jefferson, Notes in Virginia Jones, dissertations on Asia Loskiel, Missions of N. America Marsden Sumatra and Malays Mellish travels and Maps Olivet, new translation of Sepher. des Arts Pages, travels round the world Pallas, travels in Russia &c. Pennant, Artic Zoology Pernetty, Falkland I. Peron, travels Perouse, travels Pickering, Indian languages Proud; History of Pennsylvania Rafinesque, Manuscripts of Tellus, Ramsay, History of Carolina 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 Tonti and Laralle, travels Ulloa, travels and researches Valancey, Antiq. of Ireland 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; |