Note 678 — Chapter II

Pre-Columbian Discovery of America, p. lvii. The Brinley Catalogue, iii. 5378, gives Dammartin’s Explification de la Pierre de Taunston (Paris? 1840-50) as finding in the inscription an astronomical theme by some nation foreign to America. Buckingham Smith believed it to be a Roman Catholic invocation, around which the Indians later put their symbols (Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc., Apr. 29, 1863, p. 32). For discussions more or less extensive see Laing’s Heimskringla, i. 175; Haven in Smithsonian Contributions, 1856, viii. 133, in a paper on the “Archæology of the United States;” Charles Rau in Mag. Amer. Hist., Feb., 1878; Apr., 1879; and in Amer. Antiquarian, i. 38; Daniel Wilson’s Prehistoric Man, ii. 97; J. R. Bartlett in Rhode Island Hist. Soc. Proc., 1872-73, p. 70; Haven and others in Am. Antiq. Soc. Proc., Oct., 1864, and Oct., 1867; H. H. Bancroft’s Native Races, v. 74; Drake’s N. E. Coast; North American Rev., 1874; Amer. Biblical Repository, July, 1839; Historical Mag., Dec., 1859, and March, 1869; Lelewel’s Moyen Age, iii.; H. W. Williams’s transl. of Humboldt’s Travels, i. 157, etc.