[63]. A foot or more of soft black soil (humus) on the bottom of the cellar refuted the suspicion entertained by some that this excavation was of more recent origin than the ancient buildings.
[64]. Indians, some of whom are no mean anatomists, have since pronounced one of them to be part of a vertebra in all probability human.
[65]. Even at this day our pagan Ojibwas make such a use of human bones. They either carry them in their “medicine bags” as “manitous” or grind them to powder, which they apply especially to their puncturing instruments. In diseases of the head the powder of the skull is used; in the case of a sore leg, that of the tibia or femur, etc.
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[67]. Alexandre de Saint-Cheron. Introduction to Harber’s translation of Ranke’s History of the Papacy. Second edition. Paris. 1848.
[68]. Prince Bismarck.
[69]. North American Review, Sept.-Oct., 1877, art. on “Perpetual Forces.”
[70]. The word “royal” has so degenerated in these days that we feel no scruple in applying it to Victor Emanuel.
[71]. Froude’s History of England, vol. ii. p. 447. Scribner & Co. 1870.
[72]. St. Louis and Calvin, p. 149. Macmillan & Co.