Garcı ́a,Origen de los Indios, 121. Cf. Brading,First America, 198.
Garcı ́a,Origen de los Indios, 35.
Nordenskjo ̈ld, “The Influence of the ‘Travels of Marco Polo.’”
Owens, “Myth of Anian.”
Maldonado’s letter with drawings of the straits is found in Barrow,Chrono-
logical History of Voyages, app. 2 , 24 – 45.
Ben-Israel,Orı ́gen de los Americanos, 120.
Garcı ́a,Origen de los Indios, 185.
Rocha,Tratado, 1 :xi. Rocha also published a book on the great comet of 1680 –
1681 (Kirch’s Comet). See Johnson, “Periwigged Heralds.” For a discussion of Rocha’s
origins, theories, and sources, see Franch, “Introduccion,”El origen de los indios, 1 – 37.
Rocha,Tratado, 1 :xii.
Ibid., 2 : 41 – 42.
134 .Ibid., 2 : 41 – 78.
The original runs as follows: “fueron los Tultecas, que fueron tronco y rama de
las diez tribus y mucos de ellos vinieron desde Arzaret, penetrando por dicho reino de
Anian y pasando el estrecho del mismo nombre.” Ibid., 1 : 80 – 81.
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See Goldman,Hebrew and the Bible, 15 – 23 ; Goldman,God’s Sacred Tongue,
61 – 101.
Heylyn,Cosmographie, 8 , 655 – 715 ; See also Heylyn,Microcosmus.
Bar-Yosef,Holy Land.
For a history of the English Bible in that period, see Nicolson,God’s Secretaries.
On the Bible and political thought in England at the time, see particularly Hill,The
English Bible, 3 – 78.
Hill,The English Bible, 49.
Defoe,Jure Divino, 5 : 20 – 21.
Great Britain, Parliament, House of Commons,History and Proceedings, 155.
Hutton,Charles the Second. On the political crisis of the entire period, see
Harris,Revolution.
Peyton,Divine Catastrophe, 37 – 38.
10 .A Collection of State Tracts, 1 : 491.
Ridpath,Parliamentary Right Maintain’d, 8 , 18 – 19.
Ridpath, ibid, 19. See also Acherley,Britannic Constitution, 15.
13 .Thom,Revoltof the Ten Tribes, 44.
Erskine,Equity and Wisdom, 9 – 10. There is clearly a link here to the Scottish
Enlightenment that is still in need of exploring.
15 .Fall of Britain 9 (January 4 , 1777 ): 52 – 53.
