After I had searched in vain for it, I was assured that it was near some mounds several miles to the east of Niffer.
My proposition to encamp on the mounds of Niffer was negatived by Agab, on account of the dangers from the Bedouins, evil spirits, beasts of prey, and the like.
Trenches had also been opened in one of the higher mounds in the line of walls, and in the group of ruins at the S.
There are several smaller mounds in the neighbourhood, which have not been explored.
Whilst to the south of the Sinjar artificial mounds appeared to abound, to the north I could distinguish but few such remains.
Discoveries in both mounds prove that they belong to nearly the same period, and that Nebbi Yunus is the more recent of the two.
There are certainly traces of them in themounds in the Desert west of Mosul, if not in the Birs Nimroud.
A rampart or wall, the remains of which are marked by mounds of earth, appears to have inclosed both of them.
Around the centre structure are scattered smaller mounds and heaps of rubbish, covered with the usual fragments of pottery, glass and bricks.
The mounds I examined, and particularly that of Abd-ul-Azeez, abound in sepulchral urns and in pottery, apparently not Assyrian.
The gold objects of most interest come from mounds in Florida and a few also from those in the Ohio valley.
Of the prehistoric inhabitants of Indiana little is known, but extensive remains in the form of mounds and fortifications abound in every part of the state, being particularly numerous in Knox and Sullivan counties.
The field is still called “Hall close,” and the moats, ponds, and moundscover some two acres.
In the next village but one to the west formerly stood the Priory of Minting, of which only mounds and ponds survive.
In a grass field, on the south side of the road through Thornton, there are moundsand hollows, indicating a large residence, which this Dymmock probably occupied.
There are mounds and hollows about the Abbey field which show how extensive the buildings at one time were, covering several acres; and a canal can be traced which had connection with the River Witham, which is two fields distant.
Nothing now exists of this former mansion above ground, but the moats and mounds cover an area of more than two acres, shewing that it was a large residence.
It was composed by that gentleman as a historical romance of the long extinct race who built the mounds and forts which are scattered over the valley States.
Little is known about the strange race of people that inhabited the North American continent prior to the Indians, and it is only by the ruins of works which they constructed in the shape of mounds that their existence is known of.
From Bagdad to the Persian Gulf there is not the slightest elevation save for the artificial mounds or an occasional changing sand drift.
Its food consists of worms and insects, and especially ants, in the mounds of which it generally conceals itself.
Possibly these mounds were only the remains of fireplaces, where the Chukches had used as fuel train-drenched bones, and which they bad afterwards for some reason or other endeavoured to protect from the action of the atmosphere.
Remains of old dwellings were found even at the highest points among the stone mounds of Irkaipij, and here perhaps was the last asylum of the Onkilon race.
They commonly breed high up on some mossy or grassy oasis, among the stone mounds of the coast mountains, or on the summit of a steep strand escarpment in the interior of the fjords.
It was partly sunk in one of the small mounds which are found here along the shore, and which are probably the remains of old Onkilon dwellings.
I left at six for Magdeburg, and after two hours' ride over a dull, tiresome plain, rode along under the mounds and fortifications by the side of the Elbe, and entered the old town.
Large mounds of earth, covered with black, decaying grave-stones, which were almost hidden under the weeds and rank grass, filled the inclosure.
In the main hall many fugitives were crouching on the floor, some on mattresses, and piled about them were little mounds of household effects that they had succeeded in saving from their wrecked and ruined homes.
The largest and finest of these mounds have been nearly destroyed by the encroachments of the road makers.
These mounds are located two miles north of Osceola, on Close creek.
There are also fine specimens of ancient mounds on Chisago lake, near Centre City and Chisago City.
But one of the mounds is an effigy mound, and this is not clearly defined, plowing in the field having disturbed the outline of the effigy.
Many mounds exist at Prairie du Chien, some quite large, and of varying shape, some representing inclosures or fortifications, with gateways or openings.
There are several ancient mounds in the town site which have been utilized to some extent as burial mounds.
Such mounds were used for burial places long after their original builders had passed away.
Another day I rode to Bissell's Mounds and united in marriage John Kenny and a mulatto woman.
The builders of the ancient mounds certainly exercised great taste in their location, as they are generally found in pleasant localities, on grassy plateaus or elevated lands, and by the shores of lakes and streams.
C A and A B are found to be the identical mounds surveyed by Mr. Lewis, the variation in direction being exceedingly slight and easily accounted for by erosion.
Excavations in the other mounds had been unsuccessful; nothing had been discovered of the palisades, though every mound gave certain proof of having been artificially made.
The mounds now standing on the ground are drawn on the appended chart "Diagrams of Fort Necessity" as lines C A B E.
If, however, it was originally an irregular square it is not improbable that the rains and frosts of five winters, combined with the demolition of the Fort by the French, would have given the mounds a circular appearance.
Immense mounds have been found as far South as the river Nun.
Snow, which is still lying on the mountains, is heaped up into immense mounds by the bombardment.
After the interment, where the bodies were deposited four deep, one above another, the Germans mademounds surmounted by crosses, intimating that only two persons were buried beneath each mound.
Sitting on a horse one could count a score to fifty or sixty of these mounds or vizcacheras on the surrounding plain.
And there are moundsof gravel, and holes in the sides of the basin where gravel has been taken out, and high up in the steep sides there are the little holes that are the little front doors of the little sand-martins' little houses.
Hearing of certain large Indian mounds near the way, I turned to one side to visit them, stopping a couple of days with Colonel Lewis Tumlin, on whose plantation these mounds were.
At a plantation near some Indian mounds we met a detachment of the Eighth Missouri, that had been up to the fleet, and had been sent down as a picket to prevent any obstructions below.
The marsh-elder bushes mostly are restricted to the mounds of earth dug from the ditches.
May spears of battle slay Caier; The rejected of the land be Caier; Buried under moundsand stones be Caier!
Now the king, or prince, lived at Goodern, where are stillmounds of a lis, and he was by no means pleased to hear that foreign monks had settled on the river-bank without his permission.
It had stopped snowing, and because of the warm breath of the prisoners little holes had been melted in the white mounds which covered them so that they could see out a bit.
It began to form in little moundsover the extended feet of the staked-out prisoners.
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