Note 673 — Chapter II
Reading edition
Wilson’s Prehist. Man, ii. 98; Amer. Asso. Adv. Science, Proc., 1856, p. 214; Séance annuelle de la Soc. des Antiq. du Nord, May 14, 1859; H. W. Haynes in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., Jan., 1888, p. 56. The Monhegan inscription, as examined by the late C. W. Tuttle and J. Wingate Thornton, was held to be natural markings (Mag. Amer. Hist., ii. 308; Pulpit of the Revolution, 410). Charles Rau cites a striking instance of the way in which the lively imagination of Finn Magnusen has misled him in interpreting weather cracks on a rock in Sweden (Mag. Amer. Hist., ii. 83).