Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of (14782904445)

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Title: Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864. dn United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. cn
Subjects: Indians of North America United States
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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ANTIQUITIES. 121 navian era in the United States, to advert to the so-called Newport Ruin, of whicha correct engraving, identifying the style of architecture, taken by Captain S. Eastmanfor this work, is given (Plate 15). The details brought forward by the Rev. EdwardPetersen (vide Hist. Rhode Island, pp. 168, 171, 175), denote that this structure didnot exist on the first settlement of Newport, and that it cannot be traced back to theorigin of the Rhode Island colony, in 1638. Evidence is produced that it was erectedfor the simple purposes of a windmill, by Benedict Arnold, the first governor of thatcolony, after an approved plan of construction first introduced into England, as weelsewhere learn, by the noted architect Inigo Jones. This subject, having been originally commented on by Dr. Thomas H. Webb, atthe request of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquarians at Copenhagen, has beenreferred to that gentleman for his maturer remarks on a rather anomalous question inAmerican archae