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these crosses is an inscription that has no meaning in Spanish or any 

 other known, terrestrial language: 



"IYNKICIDU," according to Mr. Jones. He thinks that this 

 is a name, and that there is an aboriginal ring to it, though I should 

 say, myself, that he was thinking of the far-distant Incas: that the 

 Spanish donor cut on the cross the name of an Indian to whom it 

 was presented. But we look at the inscription ourselves and see 

 that the letters said to be "C" and "D" are turned the wrong way, 

 and that the letter said to be "K" is not only turned the wrong way, 

 but is upside down. 



It is difficult to accept that the remarkable, the very extensive, 

 copper mines in the region of Lake Superior, were ever the works 

 of American aborigines. Despite the astonishing extent of these 

 mines, nothing has ever been found to indicate that the region was 

 ever inhabited by permanent dwellers ". . . not a vestige of a 

 dwelling, a skeleton, or a bone has been found." The Indians have 

 no traditions relating to the mines. (Amer. Antiquarian, 25-258.) 

 I think that we've had visitors: that they have come here for copper, 

 for instance. As to other relics of them but we now come upon 

 frequency of a merger that has not so often appeared before: 



Fraudulency. 



Hair called real hair then there are wigs. Teeth called real 

 teeth then there are false teeth. Official money counterfeit money. 

 It's the bane of psychic research. If there be psychic phenomena, 

 there must be fraudulent psychic phenomena. So desperate is the 

 situation here that Carrington argues that, even if Palladino be 

 caught cheating, that is not to say that all her phenomena are 

 fraudulent. My own version is: that nothing indicates anything, 

 in a positive sense, because, in a positive sense, there is nothing to be 

 indicated. Everything that is called true must merge away in- 

 distinguishably into something called false. Both are expressions 

 of the same underlying quasiness, and are continuous. Fraudulent 

 antiquarian relics are very common, but they are not more common 

 than are fraudulent paintings. 



W. S. Forest, "Historical Sketches of Norfolk, Virginia": 



That, in Sept., 1833, when some workmen, near Norfolk, were 

 boring for water, a coin was drawn up from a depth of about 30 feet. 

 It was about the size of an English shilling, but oval an oval disk, 

 if not a coin. The figures upon it were distinct, and represented "a 

 warrior or hunter and other characters, apparently of Roman 

 origin." 



