John Bartlett - The Progress of Ethnology

I am aware that many believe the sculptures on the Dighton rock to contain several alphabetic characters. Prof. Rafn in his learned and ingenious memoir on this inscription, supports this view. In fact, Mr. Jomard himself hints at their Phœnician origin.

Histoire Naturelle des Canaries. Tom. I. p. 23

Scenes in the Rocky Mountains, Oregon, California, &c., by a New Englander. p. 198.

Scenes in the Rocky Mountains, California, &c. by a New Englander. p. 180.

Auburn (New York) Banner, 1837.

Political Essay on New Spain. Vol. 2, p. 315. (London ed. in 4 vols. 8vo.)

Life and Travels in California. p. 372.

Dr. Lyman states, that "in the autumn of 1841, an American trader with thirty-five men, went from Bents fort to the Navijo country, built a breastwork with his bales of goods, and informed the astonished Indians, that he had 'come into their country to trade or fight, which ever they preferred.' The campaigns of the old trappers were too fresh in their memory to allow hesitation. They chose to trade, and soon commenced a brisk business."

Humboldt's Political Essay on New Spain. Vol. 2, p. 316. On the testimony of the missionaries of the Collegio de Queretaro , versed in the Aztec language, M. Humboldt states, that the language spoken by the Moqui Indians is essentially different from the Mexican language. In the seventeenth century, missionaries were established among the Moquis and Navijos, who were massacred in the great revolt of the Indians in 1680.

Clavigero, Hist. Mexico. Vol. 1, p. 151. Humboldt's Polit. Essay on New Spain, Vol. 2. p. 300. A more detailed account of these remains, may be found in the Appendix to Castaneda's " Relation du Voyage de Cibola en 1540 ," published in the " Relations et memoirs originaux " of Ternaux-Compans. The state of the country, the manners and customs of the Indians, and their peculiar state of civilization are given at length, and are interesting in this enquiry. The notice of the " Grande Maison, dite de Moctezuma ," is extracted from the journal of Father Pedro Font, who traversed this country to Monterey, on the Pacific, in 1775.

Report to the Royal Geographical Society, London, Nov. 9, 1846.

Nouvelles Annales des Voyages. Feb. 1846. p. 146.

London Athenæum, Aug. 8, 1846, in which is a condensed account of this journey.

Simmond's Colonial Magazine. Vol. V. p. 87.

There is evidently some mistake in these dimensions, which would give a mass of masonry many times larger than the great pyramid at Ghizeh.

London Athenæum, Nov. 9. 1846.

Journal of the Geographical Society. Vol. 16.

Missionary Herald, vol. 41. p. 218.

London Athenæum, March 7, 1846.

Ibid. Oct. 31, 1846.

Bulletin de la Société de Géographie. Rapport par M. Roger. 1846. p. 321.

London Athenæum, July 4, 1846.

London Athenæum, July, 1845.

The Geography of N'Yassi, or the Great Lake of Southern Africa, investigated, with an account of the overland route from the Quanza, in Angola, to the Zambezi, in the government of Mozambique, by Wm. Desbrough Cooley, in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, London. Vol. xv.

Notes on African Geography, by James M'Queen. — Ibid. Contributions towards the Geography of Africa, by James McQueen, in Simmond's Colonial Magazine, Vol. vi.

Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. 15, p. 371.

Nouvelles Annales des Voyages: May, 1846, p. 139.

Bulletin de la Société de Géographie de France, for 1845, p. 251.