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Show 1GG TTIE UONOGENISTS AND aboriginal Indian group still living on this continent. Such is what will be attempted in the fvllowing pages. But, before proceeding, we must rid ourselves of some preconceived cncnmbranccs about chronology; because "there are persons in America * * *; persons whose intellects or fancies arc employed in the contemplation of complicated and obscure theories of human origin, existence, and development--denying the very onMNOLOGY which binds man to God, and linh communities together by indissoluble moral obligations." "Pretty considerable" performances for Mr. Schoolcraft's "chronology"! 1 91 Our .nat~onal Didymus and XAAKENTEPOl:-he, too, of brazen bowels, m htcrary fabrication-believing that "the heavens and the earth': were created cxa ·tly at six o'clock on Sunday morning (let day), m the mouth of cptcmber, at the equinox of the year n. c. ~004, 102 would. bo much distressed if he knew what his only patronJzor's (Chevaher Bunsen's) opinion is, viz.-" That a concurrence of fa?ts an~ of tra litions demands, for the N oachian period, about ton milleuma before our era; and, :for tho beginning of our race, another ton thousand years, or very little more." l93 The startling ora claimed, in 1845, by Bunsen, for Egypt's :first Phamoh, MENEs, B. c. 3643, sinks into absolute insignificance before th~ 20,000 years now insisted upon by him for man's terrestrial existence. Pa~reontologist~ of the M?rtonian school will cheerfully ac?~pt Bunsen a chronological extenswn, notwithstanding their inabih~ y to comprehend tho process by which the learned Gorman obtams that doiinitc cipher, OL' the reason why the human period should not be prolonged a few myriads of years more. Brou()'ht down n~arer t? our gen.oration it cannot, without violating all :oasonablo mductwn rogardmg the ante-monumental state of Egypt. 191 ntho loss t1h an from bt ho remote era assigned by Prof· A gass1·z 195 'to . e cong" .o merat.e ,h rought to his cabinet from Flor1'd a , m· e1 o s·m g numan Jaws w1t perfect teeth, and portions of a foot." 191 SouooLonA.~'T, Indian Tribes of the United States, Philadelphia elephant 4to 1854 -" Ethnograpluoal rcscn.rchcs concerning the Rod Man in America·" 'Fo tl R , ' · 192 REV Dn L [[, , ur 1 opor,, p. IX. · · IGHTFOOT, armony of the Foure .E-uangelisles London 1644. p ·f I 1 t pago. 1st, Comp~re BA.SNAO.E (lliat. and Religion of tlte Jews, p;. 107-8): on th~ di:;ut~ti:r~s between. tho Ca.ra1tcs (.llteraliala) and the Rabbinist.~ (traditioniats), whether the world wns cthrce~ trt~etdb bims Mka rchth or 1n September· 2d ·r 't b d · 1 S · ,-l . 1 e eslred to nscertain on what grounds rin ma ~ e at ept. the dn.y of creation, the solution is R. Jn.coub's Baal .Ilaturlna ~oRe~~ I;~ V~mcc, 154.0); who proves it through the Kabbala on the first word of Genesis - eoa.use, on tmnsposing !otters Al l · · 1 ' mcl\ns "in Septemb , 1 R ' ep 1 1s eqmva ent to "first," and be turi 193 . or ( tOrrAno SIMON, op. cit., 1, p. 882.) Oullme& of the Pllilosoplly of Oistury London 1854. II 12 1~ Types of Afanki11d, pp. 687-9. ' ' ' ' P· · w Op. cit., pp. 352--a. THE POLYGENISTS. With respect to Nilotic alluvials, my suggestion of geological researches 100 has boon wrought out, sin co 1851, by an old Egyptian colleague, IIikckyan-Boy, one of Scid Pasha's civil engineers, with effective government aid, at IIoliopolis and Memphis, under direction of Mr. Leonard II01·nor, of the Royal Socicty,197 which placed a liberal grant of money at this gentleman's disposal. Father-in-law of Sir Charles Lyell, and father of tho accomplished ladies who translated Lcpsius's Briefe aus /Egypten, ..!Etltiopien, &c.,H.>s no one cou.ld be more qualified for the undertaking,-particulars concerning wh10h may be also read in Brugsch/99 who visited Mctrahcni while the works and surveys wore going on. Tho royal names dis-interred are given by him; and they belong to the XIXth-XXth dynasties, or tho 15th-12th century B. c.; but the depth, beneath the surface, at which they were found, indicates a much more remote antiquity for the accumulation of soil below them. During my recent sojourn in London, Mr. Horner, among other courtesies, was plea.sed to show me tho interesting specimens collected, and to favor me with an insight into tho probable results. These wore to appear in a later number of the Royal Society's 'l"ransactions. They will establiF;h an unexpected antiquity for the Nile's deposits; especially as Mr. Hornor, with Lopsius and all of us, takes tho XIIth Dynasty at about 2300 before Christ; which, as he correctly observes, "according to the marginal chronology printed in the latest editions of our Bibles, is about 300 years before the death of Noah." 2110 Again, to the ante-Abrahami.c age of the same XIIth dynasty, more than 4000 years backwards from Olll' own day, belong those eighteen hioroglyphical inscriptions, recording, upon the rocks ncar Samneh, for a period of about :fifty years, "tho height to which the river rose in the several years of which they boar the date. Independently of the novelty of these inscriptions, which are very short, they possess groat value in enabling us to compare the ancient elevations of the waters of the Nile with those of our time; for the oldest of these records dates back to a period of 2200 years before the Christian era. Thus, the measurements I have made with the greatest care, and which at this place were taken with comparative facility, have given the remarkable result, that the average rise of the Nile, 100 Otia /Egypliaca, 1840, pp. 67-8. 197 PltilosopMcal Transaction~ of the Royal Society, vol. cxlv, PaTt I, London, 4to, 1855; pp. 105-38. 199 Letters from Egypt, &c.-revised by the author; and transln.tcd by Ll!lONORA and JOANNA n. ITORNElt; London, 12mo, 1853. 199 Reiuberichte aus .IEfJ?Jplm (1853-4), Leipzig, 8vo, 1855; pp. 62-79. :lOO "Mr. Horner on tho Alluvial Land of Egypt," op. cit., p. 128. ,,. I' 'I |
