Note 385 — Chapter I
Reading edition
A specimen is in M. V. Moore’s paper in the Mag. of Amer. Hist. (1884), xii. 113, 354. There are various fugitive references to Roman coins found often many feet under ground, in different parts of America. See for such, Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum; Haywood’s Tennessee (1820); Hist. Mag., v. 314; Mag. Amer. Hist., xiii. 457; Marcel de Serre, Cosmogonie de Moise, p. 32; and for pretended Roman inscriptions, Brasseur de Bourbourg, Nat. Civ. Méx., preface; Journal de l’Instruction Publique, Juin, 1853; Humboldt, Exam. Crit., i. 166; Gaffarel in Rev. de Géog., ix. 427.