Note 119-1 — Chapter IV
Reading edition
This remarkable relic has been the subject of a long and able article in the Revue Américaine (tom. ii. p. 69), by the venerable traveller De Waldeck. Like myself—and I had not seen his opinion until after the above was written—he explains the cruciform design as indicating the four cardinal points, but offers the explanation merely as a suggestion, and without referring to these symbols as they appear in so many other connections.