Note 1041 — Chapter III · (continued 2)

Cf. Short, p. 396. Le Plongeon retorts (Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc., n. s., i. 282) by telling his critic that he had never been in Yucatan. Considering the effect of contact in many of those who have written of the ruins, it may be a question if the implication is valuable as a piece of criticism. Mr. Salisbury and Dr. Le Plongeon reported from time to time in the Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc. the results of the latter’s investigations, and the researches to which they gave rise. Those in April, 1876, and April, 1877, of these Proceedings, were privately printed by Mr. Salisbury, as The Mayas, etc. In April, 1878, Mr. Salisbury reported upon the “Terra-cotta figures from Isla Mujeres.” In Oct., 1878, there were communications from Dr. Le Plongeon, and from Alice D. Le Plongeon, his wife. In April, 1879, Dr. Le Plongeon communicated a letter on the affinities of Central America and the East. Since this the Le Plongeons have found other channels of communication. Dr. Le Plongeon expanded his somewhat extravagant notions of Oriental affinities in his Sacred mysteries among the Mayas and the Quiches, 11,500 years ago; their relation to the sacred mysteries of Egypt, Greece, Chaldea, and India. Freemasonry in times anterior to the temple of Solomon (New York, 1886).