[3]. Vues des Cordillières, et Monumens des Peuples Indigènes de l’Amérique. Introduction.
[4]. See F. Michel, Dix-huit Ans chez les Sauvages. Voyages et Missions de Mgr. Henry Faraud (Paris, 1866), and Emile Petitot, Monographie des Dènè-Dindjié? (Paris, 1876).
[5]. Professor Gustav Storm has rendered it probable that the Vineland of the Northmen was not further south than Nova Scotia. See his Studies on the Vineland Voyages, in Mems. de la Société Royale des Antiquaires du Nord., 1888.
[6]. Such was the opinion of the late José Fernando Ramirez, one of the most acute and learned of Mexican antiquaries. See his words in Orozco y Berra’s Introduction to the Cronica of Tezozomoc, p. 213 (Mexico, 1878).
[7]. Die Spuren der Aztekischen Sprache in Nördlichen Mexiko, etc. (Berlin, 1859.)
[8]. I would refer the reader who cares to pursue this branch of the subject to my analysis of these stories in The Myths of the New World (second ed., New York, 1876), and American Hero-Myths (Philadelphia, 1882).
[9]. The results of the recent “Hemenway South-western Exploring Expedition” do not in the least invalidate this statement.
[10]. A brief but most interesting description of these monuments is preserved in a letter to the Emperor Charles V. by the Friar Lorenzo de Bienvenida, written from Yucatan in 1548.
[11]. Las Ruinas de Tiahuanaco. Por Bartolomé Mitre. (Buenos Ayres, 1879.)
[12]. This assertion was attacked by Dr. C. C. Abbott, in an address before the American Association in 1888 (Proceedings, Vol. XXXVII, p. 308). But if we assume the mediæval period of European history to have begun with the fall of the Western Empire, I do not retire from my position.