 If I was right in calculating that the present delta of the Mississippi has required, as a minimum of time, more than one hundred thousand years for its growth,* it would follow, if the claims of the Natchez man to have coexisted with the mastodon are...  The Anthropological Review - Seite 1341863Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1867 - 730 Seiten
...present Delta of the Mississippi must have required many tens of thousands of years for its growth, and if the claims of the Natchez man to have coexisted with the mastodon are admitted, it would follow that North America was peopled by the human race many tens of thousands of years before... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1863 - 576 Seiten
...present delta of the Mississippi has required, as a minimum, of time, more than one hundred thousand years for its growth,* it would follow, if the claims...geological data, that the Natchez bone was anterior in data to the antique flint hatchets of St. Acheul. When we ascend the Mississippi from Natchez to Vicksburg,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, George Walter Prothero - 1863 - 626 Seiten
...present delta of the Mississippi has required, as a minimum of time, more than one hundred thousand years for its growth, it would follow, if the claims...more than a thousand centuries ago by the human race ' (p. 204). No wonder that Sir C. Lyell appears unwilling to declare his acceptance of a conclusion... | |
 | Anonymous - 1863 - 602 Seiten
...present delta of the Mississippi has required, as a minimum of time, more than one hundred thousand years for its growth, it would follow, if the claims...more than a thousand centuries ago by the human race ' (p. 204). No wonder that Sir C. Lyell appears unwilling to declare his acceptance of a conclusion... | |
 | John Laws Milton - 1864 - 668 Seiten
...the present delta of the Mississippi has required as a minimum of time more than one hundred thousand years for its growth, it would follow, if the claims of the Natchez man (found by Dr. Dickeson in a rent made by an earthquake in 1811 and 1812) to have co-existed with the... | |
 | 1865 - 484 Seiten
...present delta of the Mississippi has required, as the minimum of time, more than a hundred thousand years for its growth, it would follow, if the claims...the Natchez man to have coexisted with the mastodon were admitted, that North America was peopled more than a hundred centuries ago." We shall have occasion,-... | |
 | Anthropological Society of London - 1866 - 530 Seiten
...present delta of the Mississippi has required, as a minimum of time, more than one hundred thousand years for its growth, it would follow, if the claims of the Natchez man (found buried under four cypress forests) to have coexisted with the mastodon in North America are... | |
 | Samuel Laing - 1894 - 498 Seiten
...ancient loess. If I was right in calculating that the present delta of the Mississippi has acquired, as a minimum of time, more than 100,000 years for...presume, reasoning from ascertained geological data, the Natchez bone was anterior in date to the antique flint haches of St. Acheul." Human remains have... | |
 | 1906 - 802 Seiten
...CHARLES LYELL. It would follow, if the claims of the Natchez man to have coexisted with the mastadon are admitted, that North America was peopled more than a thousand centuries ago by the human race. REV. MARK HOPKINS, DD The New Testament, which we now receive, was not, in all its parts, formally... | |
 | James Bell Pettigrew - 1908 - 370 Seiten
...the ancient loess of Natchez is anterior in time to the whole modern delta of the Mississippi. ... If I was right in calculating that the present delta...if the claims of the Natchez man to have co-existed 1 " Human OrigiiiB," by S. Laing. London, 1902, pp. 278, 280 and 281, ' Op. cit., p. 284. VOL. III.... | |
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