Editorial note — The Ignorance Of The Middle Ages.

[Footnote 225: Quatrefages, Peuplement de l'Amérique, which proves: 1. The geographical knowledge of the times. 2. The perpetuity of tradition. 3. The intercourse of different nations. 4. The tolerance of the church. Bouillet, in his Dictionnaire universelle d'Histoire et de Géographie, is deceived on this point.]