Identifier: historyofrandolp00tuck (find matches)
Title: History of Randolph County, Indiana with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers : to which are appended maps of its several townships
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Tucker, Ebenezer
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Publisher: Chicago : A.L. Klingman
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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HISTORY OF RANDOLPH COUNTY. CHAPTER I. PUE-HISTOIilC Gkneral—Spanish Exii.okations—Relics—Antiqtiitie.1. ABUNDANT evidence exists to show that North America, (and/A. South America as well), was inhabited hundreds, possiblythousands, of years ago by a swarming human population. Eventhough we possessed no written records of the doings of men uponthe Eastern Continent during the ages that are past, yet the ruinsthat still remain of the works which they left behind them wouldattest their presence and their power. In the stirring words ofthe poet, Thes imory, but 111 cord in the d< On the waste sands ; statues fallen and cleft, Heaped like a host in bittle overthrown ; Vast ruins where the mountains ribs of stone Were hewn into a city J streets that spread In the dark earth where never breath has blown ( Cf heavens sweet air, or foot of man dares tread The long and perilous ways : the Cities of the Doad I The immense walls and towers, the stupendous temples, thewondrous pyramids,historyofrandolp00tuck

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