Notes on the Floridian Peninsula; its Literary History, Indian Tribes and Antiquities

Dr. Stork, Des. of E. Fla., p. 8.

293

Capt. Robinson, in Roberts, p. 97.

294

Roberts, Hist. of Fla., p. 5.

295

Parliamentary History, Vol. XV., Col. 1301, Art. XX.

296

Travels, p. 65.

297

Jour. of Travels in E. Fla., p. 25.

298

Travels, p. 99.

299

Ibid., p. 521.

300

Travels, p. 99.

301

Au sorty du village d’Edelano, pour venir au port de la rivière il faut passer par une allée, longue environ de trois cens pas et large de quinze, aux deux costez de laquelle sont plantez de grands arbres, &c. Hist. Notable, p. 138.

302

Il y a au sortir du village une grande allée de trois à quatre cens pas, laquelle et recouverte de grands arbres des deux costez. Hist. Not. pp. 164-5.

303

Conq. de la Florida, Lib. II., P. I, cap. ult.

304

La Vega, Ibid., Lib. I., cap. V., pp. 30-1.

305

Lafitau in Baumgarten, Geschichte von Amerika, B. I., s. 71; Schoolcraft, Algic Researches, Vol. II., pp. 52, 190.

306

Knight, Anc. Art. sect. 162; Mackay, Progress of the Intellect, Vol I., p. 198, note

; Montfaucon, Antiquities, Vol. II, p. 235; Görres, Mythengeschichte, B. I., s. 171.

307

Real Cedula que contiene el asiento capitulado con Lucas Vasquez de Aillon, in Navarrete Viages, Tom. III. p. 153; Basanier, Hist. Notable, p. 29, and comp, p. 78.

308

Real cedula dando facultad à Francisco de Garay para poblar la Provincia de Amichel, in Navarrete, Tom. III., p. 148. The account says they were “de diez à once palmos en alto.”

309

Histoire de la Virginie, Liv. III., p. 259, (Orleans, 1707.)

310

Notes on the Iroquois, p. 482.

311

Letters from the Allegheny Mountains, Let. XX. p. 162.

312

Archæologia Americana, Vol. I.

313

On the rôle of trees in primitive religions consult Guigniaut, Religions de l’Antiquitè, T. I., pp. 81, 150, note, 391, 406.

314

La Vega, Conq. de la Florida, Lib. I., cap. IV., p. 5.

315

Ibid. Lib. III., cap. XIV., p. 129. cap. XV., p. 131, et sq.

316

For descriptions of this mode of interment, essentially the same in most of the tribes from the Mississippi to the St. Lawrence, and very widely prevalent in South America, consult Wm. Bartram, Travels, p. 516; Romans, Nat. Hist. Fla., pp. 88-90; Adair, Hist. N. Am. Inds., p. 183; Lawson, New Account of Carolina, p. 182, in Stevens’ Collection; Beverly, Hist. de la Virginie, pp. 259-62; Baumgarten, Ges. von Amerika, B. I., s. 470; Colden, Hist. of the Five Nations, p. 16, and many others.