INDEX. 



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Kirkland, Rev. Samuel, notices earthworks in New 

 York, 20. 



Knox, Dr. Robert, his opinion that the white race 

 decays in America, 95 ; that the flat heads of cer- 

 tain tribes are not produced by pressure, 102. 



Kublai Khan, his fleet supposed to have been driven 

 to America, 11. 



Languages of the American Indians, 53-72. 



Lapham, I. A., his description of the earthworks of 

 "Wisconsin, 100, 129. 



Ledyard, considered the Mongols of Siberia to re- 

 semble the Americans, 73. 



Le>y, Jean de, his theory of the peopling of Ame- 

 rica, 4, 13. 



Lescarbot, M., his theory of the peopling of Ame- 

 rica, 4, 7. 



Lewis and Clark, their expedition to the sources of 

 the Missouri, 31, 157. 



Locke, Prof. John, his notice of earthworks in "Wis- 

 consin, 122. 



Long, Major, his opinion of the unreliable nature of 

 Indian tradition, 40. 



Louisiana, characteristics of its monuments, 51. 



Lund, Dr., his discovery of fossil crania, 80, 101 ; con- 

 siders the American to be the older continent, 94. 



Lyell, Sir Chas., his assertion of a gradual approxi- 

 mation of the negro to the European model, 90 ; 

 observations on the situation of the remains of 

 extinct quadrupeds, 142. 



M. 



Macauley's " History of New York," 43. 



Madawk ap Owen Gwynedh, his alleged ante-Co- 

 lumbian voyages to America, 10. 



Madison, Bishop, his opinion of the design of the 

 earthworks, 30, 31. 



Madoe, Prince. See Madaiclc, &c. 



Maize an indigenous American cereal, 04, 65. 



Malays, supposed by some to have aided in peopling 

 America, 35, 40, 91, 92, 98-100 ; though this 

 could only have been at a very remote epoch, 00; 

 characteristic differences between them and the 

 Americans, 79, 80 ; their identity with the Ame- 

 ricans denied by A. Von Humboldt, 74. 



Manasseh ben Israel, "The Hope of Israel," 5. 



Mather, Cotton, sent drawing of Dighton inscription 

 to Royal Society, 28. 



Marietta, earthworks at, described, 23-26. 



Marquette and Jolliet, their exploration of the Mis- 

 sissippi, 127. 



Marson, Are, alleged discovery of America, 10. 



Martius, Dr. K. F. von, his theory that the Ame- 

 rican aborigines are a worn-out race, 94. 



Martyr, Peter, his theory of the origin of the in- 

 habitants of Yucatan, 12, 13; account of " blacka- 

 moors" on the Isthmus of Darien, 146. 



Mastodon, contemporary with the Indians, 142, 143. 



Maupertuis, his recommendation of the study of 

 barbarous languages, 55. 



Mauritania, North America supposed to be peopled 

 from, 13. 



Mayhew, descent of Indians from Jews, 5. 



McCulloh, Dr. J. II., his researches into the physi- 

 cal characteristics and history of the Indian tribes, 

 47-49, 51-53. 



McKee, Col., traditions communicated to him of 

 white Indians in Ohio and Kentucky, 50. 



Miami, antiquities of, described by Dr. Drake, 33. 



Mongols. See Turanians. 



Mitchell, Dr. Samuel L., his papers on the Ameri- 

 can aborigines and their remains, 34 ; his hypo- 

 thesis of the peopling of America, 35. 



Megatherium, of a recent era, 142, 143. 



Mexicans, their practice of human sacrifices sup- 

 posed to be derived from the Gauls, 13. 



Mexico, supposed early discovery of, 11; supposed 

 to have been founded by Kublai Khan, 11 ; sup- 

 posed by Stiles to have been peopled by the Ca- 

 naanites, 28. 



Montanus, Arius, supposed Ophir to be in America, 

 13. 



Monterinos, A., professed to have found Jews in 

 Peru, 5. 



Moore, Jacob B., his notice of an ancient fortifica- 

 tion in New Hampshire, 42. 



Moore, Col. Jas. F., account given him of white 

 Indians in Kentucky, 49, 50. 



Moraes, Emanuel de, his theory of the peopling of 

 America, 14. 



Moravian missionaries, their labors to convert and 

 civilize the Indians, 44, 45 ; their works on the 

 Indian languages, 58. 



Morton, Dr. Samuel G., adopts the term "brown" 

 to express the color of the American Indians, 53 ; 

 his work on American crania and the distinctive 

 characteristics of the American race, 70 ; repels 

 the theory of the inferiority of races on the Ame- 

 rican continent, 94 ; his opinions as to the origin 

 of the Flathead Indians, 101, 102. 



Mounds of stone. See Stone-heaps. 



Mounds of earth. See Earthworks. 



Mount Royal, near Lake George, described by Bar- 

 tram, 21. 



Muskingum. See Marietta. 



