Cotton Mather circa 1700
(born Feb. 12, 1663 died Feb. 13, 1728).
He became very much involved in the Salem Witch Trials
Cotton Mather, the Protestant minister of Boston’s Old North Church, was a true believer in witchcraft, and became the first one to launch, (1690), the Devil Hypothesis. He made a very poor copy of Danforth’s drawing done in 1680, but he NEVER saw Dighton Rock face to face! He called the rock, "The Writing Rock", as if it were a blackboard in a school house where everyone wrote on it.
I have already demonstrated elsewhere, in another article, that the Phoenician and Viking hypothesis are FRAUDULENT. Their proponents committed fraud! They changed the documents and the drawings on the inscriptions.
As far as the Chinese, Japanese, Romans, Scythians, Tyrians, etc., they were too busy fighting each other and their neighbors. They could never have travel to this part of the world centuries ago!
If anyone wishes to formulate an hypothesis or theory for the inscriptions, he has to DEMONSTRATE that ENGRAVED on the face of the Dighton Rock ARE the national symbols of that country, otherwise you have NOTHING!
American Academia
I am truly amazed at the attitude taken by the American Academia concerning the Dighton Rock inscriptions. Up to now (2009), no living professor of any American university has visited the Dighton Rock Museum to do a face to face diagnosis of the inscriptions! But this attitude is nothing new. In the XVIII century the situation was the same. Here is a sticking example: Dr. Ezra Stiles, who was a minister in Newport from 1755 to 1776, became president of Yale College and after visiting the Dighton Rock on June 15th 1767, he wrote a letter to Professor John Winthrop of Harvard University stating his opinion about Dighton Rock inscriptions: "I believe it never will be interpreted!" This is a megalomaniac statement. It is the same as if, I as a physician, would make this stupid statement: "The cure for cancer will never be discovered!"
Theory Number 22 -- The Theory of Miguel Corte Real, 1511, is the only true one!
I have to give full credit to Professor Delabarre, for he was the first one to formulate the Portuguese theory. Even though he did not have one drop of Portuguese blood, he was able, with his scientific perseverance, to make the correct diagnosis. He did not have any bias concerning the Portuguese theory. He behaved like a scientist. He was always above the different ethnicities. The scientific facts ARE the TRUTH! Even if the truth hurts the sentiments of some people! The truth is very difficult to swallow by some people. But against facts there are no arguments! Nothing else can be above the TRUTH! The Portuguese inscriptions engraved on the rock are the facts. We do not need any papyrus, nor any sheepskin document to prove them. The engraved inscriptions are the truth!
In conclusion
: the Portuguese Theory is the only TRUE ONE and it should be acclaimed in all directions, so the American people and the entire world will recognize Dighton Rock as an unique monument of the great period of the Geographic Discoveries of the XVI century!
Corte Real Documents:
If we go to Lisbon, Portugal, we can verify in the Portuguese National Archives (Torre do Tombo) the two Royal Charts by King Manuel I giving permission, on April 15, 1501, to Gaspar Corte Real to make a second voyage of discovery to North America, but he never returned to Portugal. The other Royal Chart was given to his brother Miguel Corte Real, on May 10, 1502, who came to New England looking for Gaspar, but he too never returned to Portugal. He left his calling card engraved on the face of Dighton Rock in 1511.
Royal Chart to Gaspar Corte Real given
on April 15, 1501
