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INDEX. 



N. 



Najera, Don Manuel, his treatise on the Otomi lan- 

 guage, GO, 61. 



Natchez Indians, accounts of, by Du Pratz and 

 others, 18. 



Necho, Pharaoh, his expedition to circumnavigate 

 Africa, 8. 



Newfoundland, said to have been discovered by Casta 

 Cortereal, 9 ; supposed early discovery by a mari- 

 ner from the Faro Islands, 11. 



New Hampshire, remains in, described, 42. 



New York, earthworks in, noticed by Kirkland, 26 ; 

 described by De "Witt Clinton, 33; by E. G. 

 Squier, 124-5. 



Nicolet, his explorations of Wisconsin, 127. 



Noah, Mordecai M., his theory of the peopling of 

 America, 6. 



North America, its supposed discovery by the North- 

 men, 10; and peopling by the same, 13. 



Northmen, their discovery of Greenland and sup- 

 posed migration to America, 10, 13, 35 ; supposed 

 by Barton to have built the American earthworks, 

 26 ; their colony of Vinland not believed in by 

 Mr. Gallatin, 62 ; publications of the Royal So- 

 ciety of Antiquaries of Copenhagen respecting 

 the voyages of the Northmen to America, 106- 

 108. 



Nott, Dr. J. C, his view of the origin of the Flat- 

 head Indians, 101. 



Nott and Gliddon, their " Types of Mankind,' 

 81-88. 



Nuttall, his Journal of a tour in Arkansas, 42. 



O. 



Ocean currents and trade-winds, 143-147. 



Ohio, earthworks in, described, 21-26; traditions of 

 white Indians in, 50 ; President Harrison's dis- 

 course on earthworks of, 108-110. 



Ophir, supposed to be in America, 4, 13 ; supposed 

 to be Hayti, 14. 



Opmeer, his theory of the peopling of America, 4. 



Oregon, the practices of flattening the skull and of 

 inserting disks of wood in the lips and ears found 

 there and in South America, 148 ; Mr. Ewbank's 

 etymology of the name, 148, note; no antiquities 

 found in it, 149. 



Otomi language, peculiar structure of, 00, 01, 

 63. 



Oviedo, account of an ante-Columbian voyage to 

 America, 9 ; his theory that the Antilles are the 

 Hcsperidcs of the ancients, 12. 



Pallas, Prof., employed by the Empress Catharine 

 in the collection and comparison of vocabularies, 

 57. 



Paracelsus, his theory of the peopling of America, 4. 



Parsons, Gen. Samuel H., his letter on the Grave 

 Creek mound, &c. 23, 24. 



Paulo, Marco, the Quinsai of which he speaks sup- 

 posed to be Mexico, 3. 



Pentland, Mr., his opinion of the origin of the Flat- 

 head Indians, 102. 



Peru supposed to have been founded by Kublai 

 Khan, 11. 



Peruvians, supposed by Charron to be descended 

 from the Gauls, 13 ; by Grotius, from the Chinese, 

 13 ; by Stiles, from the Canaanites, 28 ; the pe- 

 culiar shape of some of their skulls owing to arti- 

 ficial compression, 77, 78 ; this practice common 

 to them and to the tribes on the Columbia River, 

 148. 



Petit, Father le, account of the Natchez Indians, 18. 



Petri, Suffrid, his supposed origin of the Peruvians 

 and Chilians, 13. 



Phillips, J. S., his remarks on American crania, 84. 



Phoenicians, supposed to have aided in peopling 

 America, 14, 15. 



Physical characteristics of the American people, 72. 



Pickering, Dr. Chas., his theory of the population 

 of America, 98, 99. 



Pickering, Dr. John, his writings on the American 

 languages, 60. 



Pike, Lieut., his expedition to the sources of the 

 Mississippi, &c. 31. 



Plato, legend of the island of Atlantis, 6. 



Pliny the Elder, account of the Periplus of Hanno, 7. 



Polo, Marco. See Paulo. 



Polynesians supposed to have aided in peopling 

 America, 99, 100. 



Population of America, theories respecting it, 3. 



Portfolio, the, works of defence described in, 32. 



Possivin, Anthony, supposed Ophir to be in Ame- 

 rica, 13. 



Pomponius Mela, story of Indians cast on the Ger- 

 man coast, 7. 



Postel, William, his theory of the peopling of Ame- 

 rica, 13. 



Pownal, Gov., his opinion that the Americans belong 

 to the Tartar race, 73, 74 ; suggested a compara- 

 tive study of crania, 74. 



Prescott,W. H., respecting traditions pointing to an 

 Asiatic origin for the Aztecs, 148, note. 



Prichard, Dr. J. C, his opinion respecting the en- 

 ergy and mental vigor of the American race, 94. 



