Narrative and Critical History of America: Aboriginal America. 1889Justin Winsor Houghton, Mifflin, 1889 |
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Página xiv - Stevens. Henry. Historical and Geographical Notes on the Earliest Discoveries in America, 1453-1530, with comments on the Earliest Charts and Maps; the Mistakes of the Early Navigators and the Blunders of the Geographers; the Asiatic Origin of the Atlantic Coast of North America, how it Crept in and how it Crept out of the Maps.
Página 41 - Heaviside. — AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES ; or, the New World the Old, and the Old World the New.
Página 133 - American scholars. Even the traditions of the migrations of the Chichimecs, Colhuas, and Nahuas, which form the staple of all American antiquarians, are no better than the Greek traditions about Pelasgians, ./Eolians, and lonians ; and it would be a mere waste of time to construct out of such elements a systematic history, only to be destroyed again sooner or later by some Niebuhr, Grote, or Lewis.
Página 59 - Chinese, Japanese, Malay, with the Polynesians — which has not been claimed as discoverers, intending or accidental, of American shores, or as progenitors, more or less perfect or remote, of American peoples ; and there is no good reason why any one of them may not have done all that is claimed. The historical evidence, however, is not such as is based on documentary proofs of indisputable character, and the recitals advanced are often far from precise enough to be convincing in details, if their...
Página 84 - Sasmuud, and others began to take the sagas out of the traditionary state and fix them in writing, but none of the original skins appear to have come down to our time, but only some of the numerous copies of them.
Página ii - ... from further consideration of the validity of this particular entry, but the suggestion arises, can we trace the source of Trumbull's error? Mr. Albert Matthews has called my attention to the fact that Dr. Haven in his Catalogue of anterevolutionary publications, which is to be found in Vol. II of the edition of Thomas's History of printing, published by the American Antiquarian Society, mentioned
Página 27 - Etrusca praeter et volate litora. 40 nos manet Oceanus circumvagus ; arva, beata petamus arva divites et insulas, reddit ubi Cererem tellus inarata quotannis et imputata floret usque vinea...
Página 76 - The Northwest Coast of America, being results of recent ethnological researches from the collections of the Royal Museums at Berlin.
Página 67 - The same writer states, elsewhere, in this connection, that: "Everywhere else where the Northmen' went they left proofs of this occupation on the soil, but nowhere in America, except on an island on the east shore of Baffin's Bay, has any authentic runic inscription been found out.side of Greenland.