INDEX 



A. 



Abington, Mr., his suggestion respecting the origin 

 of the Flathead race in America, 104. 



Acosta, reference to an ante-Columbian voyage to 

 America, 9 ; theory of the peopling of the conti- 

 nent, 13. 



Adair, James, his theory of the peopling of America, 

 6,20. 



Adelung, John Christopher, 58 ; Frederic, 58, 59. 



iElian, statement of the existence of another conti- 

 nent, 7. 



Agassiz, Prof. Louis, his opinions adverse to the 

 unity of the human race, 83 ; on the antiquity of 

 the human race in America, 87. 



Aleutian Islands, a feasible route for migration to 

 America, 144, 147. 



Allegewi or Tallegewi, Delaware traditions respect- 

 ing them, 43, 44. 



American Antiquarian Society, 32, 33, 38, 61, 129. 



American Ethnological Society, 62, 65, 67, 112, 

 116, 134. 



American Journal of Science, its papers on Ameri- 

 can archaeology, 43, 117. 



Ante-Columbian voyages to America, 9-11. 



Antilla island, legend of, 7. 



Antilles, supposed by Oviedo to be the Hesperides 

 of the ancients, 12. 



Arabian brothers, expedition of, 9. 



Aristotle, legend of the island of Antilla, 7. 



Arkansas. See Nuttall. 



Arrowacks, their mode of flattening the head, 102. 



Assimilation of the white to the Indian type, 95-97 ; 

 of the negro to the European type, 96. 



Atlantis island or continent, legend of, 6 ; its former 

 existence advocated by Count Carli, 12 ; by Kir- 

 cher, 13 ; by Horn, 14. 



Atwater, Caleb, his account of Western Antiquities, 

 33-37. 



Aztalan, place in Wisconsin so called, 128. 



Aztecs, discussion as to whether they once inhabited 

 the Ohio valley, 109, 110; their migration from 

 the north disputed, 148. 

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B. 



Bachman, Dr. John, his advocacy of the unity of 

 the human race, 90-92, 94, 98. 



Bailey, Kev. Jacob, his description of a mound of 

 stones, 29. 



Bailly, " Lettres sur l'Atlantide de Platon," 6. 



Bancroft, George, his description of the American 

 languages, 69, 70. 



Barker, Wm. B., his discovery of flat-head images 

 in Asia Minor, 103, 104. 



Bartlett, John B., finds no proof of the migration 

 of the Aztecs from the north, 148. 



Barton, Bcdj. Smith, his inquiries respecting Ame- 

 rican antiquities, 24; treatise on the same, 26; 

 his work on the origin of the American tribes, 

 30; his collection and comparison of Indian vo- 

 cabularies, 56. 



Bartram, John and William, the first to study Ame- 

 rican earthworks, 20, 21. 



Basque language, supposed to resemble the American 

 languages, 54, 72. 



Beatty, Charles, his story of Welsh Indians, 26, note. 



Becan, Martin, supposed Ophir to be in America, 13. 



Beck's " Gazetteer of Illinois and Missouri," 42. 



Behem, Martin, his alleged discovery of America, 10. 



Behring Straits, a probable route of migration to 

 America, 147. 



Blane, Sir Gilbert, his letter on the antiquities of 

 New York, 42. 



Bodley, Thomas, account given him of white Indians 

 in Kentucky, 49. 



Boturini, Chev., his collections on the subject of 

 Mexican antiquities, and fate, 111. 



Boudinot, Elias, his theory of the peopling of Ame- 

 rica, 6. 



Brackenridge, Mr., his observations on American 

 antiquities, 32, 157. 



Bradford, W., his work on American antiquities, 

 66, 113-116. 



Brasseur de Bourbourg, Abb6, his theory of the 

 settling of Guatemala, 15. 



Brazil discovered by Pedro Cabral, 8, 146. 



