Brasseur de Bourbourg on the antiquity of the Mound-Builders, 53; on their Mexican origin, 57; on their religion, 53; on the Chichimecs, 198; on Huehue Tlapalan, 201; on Nahuatl chronology, 204; his “Atlantic theory,” 159, 160, 174-83; he has great knowledge of American traditions and antiquities, 174; discovered the works of Ximenes and Landa’s Maya alphabet, 191, 192; translated “Popol-Vuh,” 192; he is unsystematic, confused, and fanciful, 102, 160. Brereton on the wild Indians of New England, 62-5; his invented stories of their copper and flax, 62, 63. Calendars in Mexico, 214-15; in Peru, 236. Central American and Southern Mexican ruins most important, 93; their masonry and ornamentation, 99-101; a great forest covers most of them, 94, 103, 104; a road built into the forest in 1695, 95, 151-2; this forest covers a chief seat of the ancient civilization, 95; Cinaca-Mecallo, 124. Cevola, “Seven Cities” of, 85-9. Charencey, M. de, attempts to decipher an inscription, 292-3; his singular speculation concerning the worship of Kukulcan, 293. Charnay, Desiré, his account of Mitla, 121, 122. Chronology of the Mexican race, 203-4; of the Peruvians, 265-6. Civilization, antiquity of, underrated, 181-2, 273. Cloth of Mound-Builders, fragments of, 41. Coin among the Muyscas, 271. “Coliseum” at Copan, 114. Columbus and the Mayas, 209-10. Copan, its ruins situated in wild region, 111; first discovered in 1576, and were then mysterious to the natives, 93, 111; what Mr. Stephens saw there, 111, 112; what Palacios found there 300 years ago, 113, 114; the inscriptions, monoliths, and decorations, 112; seems older than Palenque, 112, 113, 155. Copper of Lake Superior described, 43. Coronado’s conquest of “Cevola,” 85, 86. Cortez invades Mexico, 210; his progress, 210-11; well received at the city of Mexico, 211; driven from the city, 213; how the city was taken, 213-14; it was immediately rebuilt, 214; the plaza made of part of the inclosure of the great temple, 214; Cortez could not have invented the temple, 215. Cross, the, not originally a Christian emblem, 109; vastly older than Christianity as a symbolic device, 109, 110; common in Central American ruins, 109; the assumption that it was first used as a Christian emblem has misled inquiry as to the age and origin of antiquities, 110. Cuzco, Montesinos on its name, 227; was probably built by the Incas on the site of a ruined city of the older times, 226-7; the ruins at Cuzco, 226, 234-5. Egyptian pyramids totally unlike those in America, 183; no resemblance between Egyptians and the Mexican race, 183. Ethnology, American, discussed, 65-9; South Americans the oldest aborigines, 68, 69, 185; Huxley’s suggestion, 69. Gallatin, Albert, on Mound-Builders, 34.