m the _Report of the British Association
      for 1889_).

  492 W. Strachey, _Historie of travaile into Virginia Britannia_ (Hakluyt
      Society, London, 1849), p. 84.

  493 J. Bricknell, _The Natural History of North Carolina_ (Dublin,
      1737), pp. 342 _sq._ I have taken the liberty of altering slightly
      the writer's somewhat eccentric punctuation.

  494 See above, p. 162.

  495 A. de Herrera, _The General History of the Vast Continent and
      Islands of America_, translated by Capt. John Stevens (London,
      1725-6), iv. 347 _sq._ Compare J. de Acosta, _Natural and Moral
      History of the Indies_ (Hakluyt Society, London, 1880), ii. 344.

  496 Fr. Xeres, _Relation veridique de la conquete du Perou et de la
      Province de Cuzco nommee Nouvelle-Castille_ (in H. Ternaux-Compans's
      _Voyages, relations et memoires_, etc., Paris, 1837), p. 53.

  497 Juan de Velasco, _Histoire du royaume de Quito_, i. (Paris, 1840) p.
      106 (forming vol. xviii. of H. Ternaux-Compans's _Voyages, relations
      et memoires_, etc.).

  498 A. R. Wallace, _Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro_
      (London, 1889), p. 355.

  499 W. Barbrooke Grubb, _An Unknown People in an Unknown Land_ (London,
      1911), p. 233.

 M145 The "sacred spring" in ancient Italy.

  500 Festus, _De verborum significatione_, _s.vv._ "Mamertini,"
      "Sacrani," and "Ver sacrum," pp. 158, 370, 371, 379, ed. C. O.
      Mueller; Servius on Virgil, _Aen._ vii. 796; Nonius Marcellus, _s.v._
      "ver sacrum," p. 522 (p. 610, ed. Quicherat); Varro, _Rerum
      rusticarum_, iii. 16. 29; Dionysius Halicarnasensis, _Antiquit.
      Rom._ i. 16 and 23 _sq._, ii. 1. 2.

  501 Strabo, v. 4. 2 and 12; Pliny, _Nat. hist._ iii. 110; Festus, _De
      verborum significatione_, _s.v._ "Irpini," ed. C. O. Mueller, p. 106.
      It is worthy of note that the three swarms which afterwards
      developed into the Piceni, the Samnites, and the Hirpini were said
      to have been guided by a woodpecker, a bull, and a wolf
   