[2] Butler, “Prehist. Wisconsin.”

[3] “Preh. Copper Impl.,” Boston, 1879.

[4] “Anc. Mon. of the Mississ. Valley,” p. 202.

[5] “Les Voyages du Sieur de Champlain,” Paris, 1613, pp. 246-7, cited by Slafter, op. cit., p. 13.

[6] For notices of American copper instruments see, in addition to the works already quoted, Wilson, “Prehist. Man,” vol. i. p. 205, &c.; Lubbock, “Preh. Times,” p. 258, &c. See also an interesting article by Dr. Emil Schmidt, in Archiv. für Anth., vol. xi. p. 65.

[7] A Peruvian chisel analyzed by Vauquelin gave ·94 of copper and ·06 of tin (Moore’s “Anc. Mineralogy,” p. 42).

[8] Ezra, ch. viii. v. 27.

[9] Exod., ch. xxvi. v. 37.

[10] Numbers, ch. xxxi. v. 22.

[11] Ch. xxviii. v. 1, 2.