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INDEX. 



T. 



Tartar-Mongols. See Turanians. 



Taylor, R. C. and S., their papers on the earthworks 

 of Wisconsin, 106, 122. 



Tennessee, remains in, Kain's account of, 42. 



Terra de Baccalhaos, alleged discovery of, 9. 



Thevet, Andrew, his theory of the peopling of Ame- 

 rica, 5, 12. 



Thomas, David, notices of American antiquities, 42. 



Thomas, Isaiah, founder of the American Antiqua- 

 rian Society, 32. 



Thorowgood, Thos., "Jews in America," &c, 5. 



Tiedemann, his opinion of the origin of the Flat- 

 head Indians, 102. 



Toltecans, supposed by Schoolcraft to have peopled 

 the Mississippi Valley, 138. 



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



Torquemada, speaks of a village of negroes in Cali- 

 fornia, 146. 



Trade-winds, direction of, 143-146. 



Traditions, Indian, their unreliable character, 46, 

 49; Mr. Gallatin's remarks on, 51; Mr. School- 

 craft's remarks on, 130-132. 



Troost, Prof. G., his account of mummies in Ten- 

 nessee, 116. 



Tschudi, Von. See Rivero and Von Tschudi. 



Tshuktshi, sedentary, speak the Eskimaux language, 

 59. 



Turanians, supposed to have aided in peopling 

 America, 13, 14, 35-37, 73, 91, 92, 98, 99, 

 150, 151 ; this denied by Grotius, 13 ; character- 

 istic differences between them and the Americans, 

 74, note, 79, 80. 



U. 



United Brethren. See Moravian Missionaries. 

 Unity or diversity of the human race, discussions 



respecting, 81-105. 

 Usher, Dr., his remarks on American crania, 85-88. 



Van Amringo, Wm. F., his physical and psychical 

 theory of the origin of races, 93, 94. 



Vatable, Francis, supposed Ophir to be in America, 13. 



Vater, Prof. Severin, one of the authors of the 

 " Mithridates," 58. 



Vega, Garcilazo de la, account of an ante-Columbian 

 voyage to America, 9 ; his description of the 

 construction of mounds in Florida, 51. 



Vinland, supposed by some to be in Narraganset Bay, 



108. 

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

 Von Humboldt. See Humboldt. 

 Von Tschudi, J. J. See Rivero and Von Tschudi, 15. 



W. 



Warren, Dr. John C, his paper on crania from the 

 western mounds, 75 ; account of mastodon ob- 

 tained by him, 142. 



Washington, George, considered the Dighton Rock 

 inscription to be of Indian origin, 28. 



Webb, Dr., his correspondence with Danish antiqua- 

 ries on the subject of the Dighton Rock inscrip- 

 tion, 106, 107. 



Webster, Noah, advocates the theory that De Soto 

 built the American earthworks, 25 ; description 

 of a stone-heap, 29. 



Welsh, tradition of, expedition to America under 

 Madoc, 10, 35 ; Indians said to understand their 

 language, 26; the American earthworks, attribu- 

 ted to them, 31. 



White Indians, alluded to, 146. 



White Men (Irish), their supposed establishment in 

 the Carolinas and Florida, 15. 



Williams, Roger, his view of the descent of Indians 

 from the Jews, 5 ; his Indian grammar, 55. 



Williamson, Dr. Hugh, his theory of the origin of 

 the American nations, 35. 



Winthrop, Prof. Jas., made copy of Dighton Rock 

 inscription, 28. 



Wisconsin, its earthworks described by Lapham and 

 Taylor, 106, 122, 126-129; Schoolcraft's re- 

 marks on, 136. 



Wistar, Dr., his labors in the Historical Committee 

 of the American Philosophical Society, 58. 



Y. 



Yates and Moulton's " History of New York," 42. 

 Yucatan, Peter Martyr's theory of the Ethiopic 

 origin of its inhabitants, 12, 13. 



Zeisberger, his Delaware grammar, 60. 

 Zcni, the, their narrative, &e., 10-11. 

 Zichmni, Earl, patron of Antonio Zeno, 11 ; sup- 

 posed to be the Earl of the Orkneys, 11. 



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