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The legend of the "Elixir of Life" of the Western World, was well-known in China. (Buckley: Cities of the Ancient World, p. 167.)
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[536:8] Ibid. p. 118, and Squire's Serpent Symbol.
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[537:3] Mexican Antiquities, vol. vi. p. 181.
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[537:4] Ibid., and Squire's Serpent Symbol.
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[537:5] Mexican Antiq., vol. vi. p. 180.
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[537:6] Early Hist. Mankind, p. 311.
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[537:7] The traveler, James Orton, found fossil bones of an extinct species of the horse, the mastodon, and other animals, near Punin, in South America, all of which had passed away before the arrival of the human species. This native American horse was succeeded, in after ages, by the countless herds descended from a few introduced with the Spanish colonists. (See the Andes and the Amazon, pp. 154, 155.)
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[538:2] The Andes and the Amazon, p. 454.
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[538:6] Travels in Persia, vol. ii. p. 284.
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[539:3] The Andes and the Amazon, p. 170.
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[540:1] Paschel: Races of Man, pp. 402-404.
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[541:1] Paschel: Races of Man, pp. 400, 401.
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[541:2] To those who may think that the Old World might have been peopled from the new, we refer to Oscar Paschel's "Races of Man," p. 32. The author, in speaking on this subject, says: "There at one time existed a great continent, to which belonged Madagascar and perhaps portions of Eastern Africa, the Maldives and Laccadives, and also the Island of Ceylon, which was never attached to India, perhaps even the island of Celebes in the far East, which possesses a perplexing fauna, with semi-African features." On this continent, which was situated in the now Indian Ocean, must we look for the cradle of humanity.
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[541:3] Paschal: Races of Man, p. 31.
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[542:3] This is seen from the fact that they did not know the use of iron. Had they known the use of this metal, they would surely have gone to work and dug into their mountains, which are abundantly filled with ore, and made use of it.
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[542:4] The Aztecs were preceded by the Toltecs, Chichimecks, and the Nahualtecs. (Humboldt's New Spain, p. 133, vol. i.)
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"The races of barbarians which successively followed each other from the north to the south always murdered, hunted down, and subdued the previous inhabitants, and formed in course of time a new social and political life upon the ruins of the old system, to be again destroyed and renewed in a few centuries, by a new invasion of barbarians. The later native conquerors in the New World can, of course, no more be considered in the light of original inhabitants than the present races of men in the Old World."
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[543:3] Science of Religion, p. 121.
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[543:4] Mexican Antiq., vol. vi. p. 161.

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Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning, Project Gutenberg eBook #31885

FOOTNOTES: (continued 12) APPENDIX B.