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Narrative and critical history of America (1884)

Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897, Maclean, John, 1851-1928, association, MacLean, Harrison John (autograph) · Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Co. · leaf 448

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in the Smithsoniancontributions to knowledge, xxii. Throughout the world, naturalists have found on streams and on the sea-coast, heaps of the refuse of thedaily life of primitive peoples. Beneath the loam which has covered them there are found the shells ofedible mollusks and other relics of food,… … OSCAR PESCHEL.* In the Old World such heaps upon the Danish coast have attracted the most attention under tiie name ofKjoekkenmcjeddinger, or Kitchen-middens, and their teachings have enlivened the recitals of nearly all theEuropean archaeologists who have sought to picture the condition of these…

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