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Labná, architecture of, 353.

Lake Superior copper mines, 90–92.

Lamnites, colonists of America, 144.

Landa’s Alphabet, 423–25. Maya days and months, 436–7.

Languages (American), multiplicity of, 190, 469; instability of, 493–4, n. 1. survival of the fittest, 470. the Maya-Quiché, 472; classification of, 472; stability of the Maya, 473. the oldest American, 473; Orozco y Berra on, 473, 493; Maya-Quiché characteristics, 474; Dr. Le Plongeon on, 474. the Aztec, 479–90; epitome of grammar, 481–85; affinities to Asiatic, 495–96; bearing on migrations, 486.

Lapham, Dr., survey of mound-works in Wisconsin, 34–5.

Lascarbot on origin of Americans, 137.

Las Casas, on origin of Guatemalians, 228. on flood myth, 228; on creation myth, 228, n.; on Christ myth, 231.

Latham on Morton’s theories, 165, n.

Lautverschiebung, 471, 488.

Leather relic from mound, 56.

Le Conte, Prof., on changes of coast level, 504.

Legendary period of American history, level, 515.

Leidy, Prof. Joseph, on stone implements, 24.

L’Estrange on origin of Americans, 136.

Leroux, M., discoveries of, 284.

Le Plongeon, Dr., explorations in Yucatan, 396–403; on Maya language, 474–77; on analogies between Yucatan and Canary Islands, 500.

Liberty, Ohio, works at, 48.

Lief, Norse discoverer of America, 153.

Lord’s prayer in Maya, 479. in Aztec, 485.

Louisiana mounds, 77–79. Prof. C. G. Forshey on, 77; pyramidal mounds, 78.

Low type crania from mounds, 174.

Lund, Dr., explorations by, 116.

Lyell, Sir Charles, on remains at Santos River, Brazil, 113; observations on Natchez bone, 113–14; on age of Mississippi delta, 123; on New Orleans skeleton, 123.