from the ground up

“What’s more, Honda is already offering one model, the Accord coupe, which is styled and tooled in America; has a second, the Accord station wagon, in preparation; and talks of designing and engineering products from the ground up in North America by the end of the 1990s.”

Simon & Schuster: The Machine That Changed the World

“The great mount is in the form of a cone, about forty or fifty feet high, and the circumference of its base two or three hundred yards, entirely composed of the loamy rich earth of the low grounds; the top or apix is flat; a spiral path or track leading from the ground up to the top is still visible, where now grows a large, beautiful spreading Red Cedar (Juniperus Americana;) there appears four niches, excavated out of the sides of this hill, at different heights from the safe, fronting the four cardinal points; these niches or sentry boxes are entered into from the winding path, and seem to have been ment for resting places or look-outs.”

Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians.