Excerpt from In the Days Before Columbus This introductory volume to the Romance History of America endeavors to present in con cise form the vast body of information which has been gathered concerning the continent and people of America prior to historic times. Of necessity, the scope is over-inclusive to admit of detail, yet the purview is designed to be broad enough to show the unity of the continent of America and to reveal an unbroken continuity since geological times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.