[34]. "Native Races," (Bancroft), Vol., IV, p. 779.

[35]. "Conquest of Peru," (Prescott), Vol. I., p. 37.

[36]. The argument is briefly stated by Prescott, and he cites Wilkinson's "Ancient Egypt," Vol. III., pp. 246-254.

[37]. "History of Ancient Egypt," George Rawlinson, M. A., Vol. I., p. 97.

[38]. In a note he cites the fact that the British museum possesses several specimens of Egyptian iron, but three of these seven or eight specimens he declares to be of modern date. Vol. I., p. 519.

[39]. "History of Ancient Egypt," Vol. I, pp. 519, 520.

[40]. "Ancient America," (Baldwin), pp. 248, 249.

[41]. "History of America before Columbus," (DeRoo) Vol. I., p. 67.

[42]. Ibid. p. 68, 69.

[43]. "American Antiquities," p. 141.