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276 Mosheim"s _Ecclesiastical History_. London, 1847, i. 116.
277 _History of Brazil_, by Robert Southey. London, 1810, p. 635.
278 _The Dictionary, Historical and Critical_. London, 1734, iv.
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279 _Primitive Culture_, i. 262.
280 Leslie"s _Early Races of Scotland_, ii. 496.
281 _History of Brazil_, i. 193.
282 _Icelandic Legends_. Collected by Jon Arnason (Powell and Magnusson). London, 1866, p. 663.
283 _On the Truths contained in Popular Superst.i.tions_, by Herbert Mayo, M.D. Edinburgh and London, 1851, p. 135.
284 _A Literal Translation of Aristophanes: The Clouds_, by a First-Cla.s.s Man of Balliol College. Oxford, 1883, p. 31.
285 See _Curiosities of Indo-European Tradition and Folk-Lore_, by Walter H. Kelly. London, 1863, p. 226.
286 _Teutonic Mythology_, ii. 706.
287 _Astronomical Myths_, p. 331
288 _Medea: a Tragedie_. Written in Latin by Lucius Anneus Seneca. London, 1648, p. 105.
289 _The Childhood of the World_, by Edward Clodd, F.R.A.S.
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290 _The Chinese Empire_, by M. Hue. London, 1855, ii. 376.
291 _The Connection of the Physical Sciences_. London, 1877, p.
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292 Grimm"s _Teutonic Mythology_, ii. 707.
293 _Appendix on the Astronomy of the Ancient Chinese_, by the Rev. John Chalmers, A.M. Legge"s Chinese Cla.s.sics. Vol. iii. Part i.
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294 _The Middle Kingdom_, i. 818.
295 _Ibid._, ii. 73.
296 _Social Life of the Chinese_, by the Rev. Justus Doolittle, of Fuhchau. New York, 1867, i. 308.
297 _Chinese Sketches_, by Herbert A. Giles. London, 1876, p. 99.
298 _Gems of Chinese Literature_, by Herbert A. Giles. Shanghai, 1884 p. 102.
299 _An Account of Cochin China_. Written in Italian by the R. E.
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300 _A Voyage to and from the Island of Borneo in the East Indies_, by Captain Daniel Beeckman. London, 1878, p. 107.
301 _History of the Indian Archipelago_, by John Crawfurd, F.R.S.
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302 _Sketches of the History of Man_, iii. 300.
303 _Thucydides_. Translated by B. Jowett, M.A. Oxford, 1881, i.
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304 _The Stratagems of Jerusalem_, by Lodowick Lloyd, Esq., One of her Majestie"s Serjeants at arms. London, 1602, p. 286.
305 Quoted in _Notes and Queries_, 16th of April, 1881, by William E. A. Axon.
306 _Northern Antiquities_, by Paul Henri Mallett. London, 1790, i. 39.
307 _Teutonic Mythology_, i. 245.
308 _Ibid._, ii. 705.
309 _Advice to a Son_. Oxford, 1658, p. 105
310 Grimm"s _Teutonic Mythology_, ii. 714.
311 Schoolcraft"s _Indian Tribes_, v. 2 16.
312 Brinton"s _Myths_, p. 137.
313 Bradford"s _American Antiquities_, p. 332.
314 _Ibid._, p. 333.
315 _The Antiquities of Mexico_, by Augustine Aglio. London, 1830, folio vi. 144.
316 Bancroft"s _Native Races_, iii. 111.
317 Brinton"s _Myths_, p. 131.
318 _Polynesian Researches_, i. 331.