Note 546 — Chapter II

“Ethnography and Philology of America,” in H. W. Bates, Central America, West Indies, and South America (Lond., 1882). This was the opinion of Prescott (Mexico, Kirk’s ed., iii. 398), and he based his judgment on the investigations of Waldeck, Voyage dans la Yucatan, and Dupaix, Antiquités Méxicaines. Stephens (Central America) holds similar views. Cf. Wilson, Prehistoric Man, i. 327; ii. 43. Dall (Third Rep. Bur. Ethnol., 146) says: “There can be no doubt that America was populated in some way by people of an extremely low grade of culture at a period even geologically remote. There is no reason for supposing, however, that immigration ceased with these original people.”