 The neck of the serpent is stretched out, and slightly curved, and its mouth is opened wide, as if in the act of swallowing or ejecting an oval figure, which rests partially within the distended jaws. This oval is formed by an embankment of earth, without...  Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology - Seite 28von John Denison Baldwin - 1871 - 299 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1868 - 760 Seiten
...neck of " the serpent is stretched out, and slightly curved, and its mouth is " opened wide, as if in the act of swallowing or ejecting an oval figure, " which rests partially within the distended jaws. This oval is formed " by an embankment of earth, without any perceptible... | |
 | Ohio. Secretary of State - 1878 - 644 Seiten
...the Americin Cyelopœdia, "is stretched out, and slightly curved, and the mouth is opened wide, as if in the act of swallowing or ejecting an oval figure, which rests partly within the distended jiws. This oval figure is form°d by an embankment four feet high, and is perfectly regular in outline,... | |
 | Charles Hardwick - 1872 - 338 Seiten
...The neck of the serpent is stretched out, and slightly curved, and its mouth is opened wide, as if in the act of swallowing or ejecting an oval figure, which rests partially within the distended jaws. This oval is formed by an embankment of earth, without any perceptible... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1873 - 860 Seiten
...opened wide, as if in the act of swallowing or ejecting an oval figure, which rests partly between the distended jaws. This oval is formed by an embankment...outline, its transverse and conjugate diameters being 103 and 39 feet respectively. The combined figure has been regarded by some as a representation of... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1873 - 866 Seiten
...tail. The neck of the figure is stretched out and slightly curved, and its mouth is opened wide, as if in the act of swallowing or ejecting an oval figure, which rests partly between the distended jaws. This oval is formed by an embankment 4 feet high, and is perfectly regular... | |
 | Charles Colcock Jones - 1878 - 40 Seiten
...The iieck of the serpent is stretched out and slightly curved, and its mouth is opened wide, as if in the act of swallowing or ejecting an oval figure, which rests partially within the distended jaws." When and by whom these remarkable tumuli were built is not known.... | |
 | Ben Douglass - 1878 - 904 Seiten
...The neck of the serpent is stretched out, and slightly curved, and its mouth is opened wide, as if in the act of swallowing or ejecting an oval figure which rests partially within the distended jaws. This oval is formed of an embankment of earth, without any perceptible... | |
 | 1879 - 474 Seiten
..." The neck of the serpent is stretched out and slightly curved, and its mouth is opened wide, as if in the act of swallowing or ejecting an oval figure which rests partially within the distended jaws." When and by whom these remarkable tumuli were built is not known.... | |
 | 1880 - 918 Seiten
...tail. The neck of the figure is stretched out and slightly curved, and its mouth is opened wide, as if in the act of swallowing or ejecting an oval figure, which rests partly between the distended jaws. The oval, which is thus resting in the opened jaws, is formed of an embankment... | |
 | 1884 - 476 Seiten
...tail. The neck of the serpent is stretched out and slightly curved, and its mouth is opened wide, as if in the act of swallowing or ejecting an oval figure which rests partially within the distended jaws. This oval is formed by an embankment of earth, without any perceptible... | |
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