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Show THE PRESENT STATE OF JUDAH ed from the Scythians, or Tartars.—That they all had one origin.—That many of them had made such improvements in knowledge and arts, as to indicate that had had the advantages enjoyed in the one_origin, ourauthor says: commonwealth They have the same swarthy and copper colour ; flat and smooth hair ; small beards; long eyes, with the corner ° ward; and prominent cheek bones.—'The American race occupies the greatest space on the globe. Over Z their that they were indebted for it to s of as ces nation with some very cultivated ae y — But how improbable is it that these people oe eae with eould have any communication them, staat ss Asia, on the other side the globe from of patnic’® . leagues “nds oceans, or many thousands of pe’ 19 d they, coul How m serts, lay between the . r > S ir , + . nd mechanical improvements ! ¥ Can such im : v : ne be imputed toa northern | 5 Schl Scythian origin ? riking evidence follows.4 # PP Se : li Our /diithor proceeds to‘descr wig the. pyramids Ss O f : ribe . : CW et rea t those‘ signal Indian antiquities. The te Soa ) " “pay 2 & is 177 feet in height. Its base is ~ -_ 1416 feet. as tour i.great stages*S, Or stories, It | 2 ; N . By e Xactly with the meridian, north — aeand south ; the widthle hearly equal to the length ; 439 . >t ing nearly 3 1-4 feet sed, he tell ; -) =< . ; of e , a million and a half of ‘square leagues, from the Terra 3 effect of ue lieve that this progress is not the Sn e thems tual development of the Americans etanerem . . directed up- del Fuego islands, to the river St. Lawrence, and Bee. ring’s Straits, we are struck at the first glance withthe tants. inhabi the of es featur general resemblance im the the We think we perceive that they all descended from a of are who He goes on to note some same stock.”? porul But he adds; “In the faithf different opinion. y) has trait which an excellent observer (M. Volne recog: drawn of the Canada Indians, we undoubtedly the Rio of ows mead the nize the tribes scattered in of features exApure, and the Corona. The same style ists no doubt in both Americas.” the natives s, | Meo ~ As to the improvements of some of before the ae / Humbolt, speaking of the Mexicans der that oa consi 'ish conquests, says; “ When we on of ie durati had an almost exact knowledge of the ee of end rear; that they intercalated at the “ dl¢ accuracy than cycle of 104 years, with more "4 5 ed \Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians, we are tempt ca its inhabita nts would een known in the eastern world. Suc h anh - oa is vastly improbable at least . But they sie . ~ might have made progress in arts and some deg = 0 mene brought down from ancient Israel] ‘Our | - lor says; aby laultees appear ed in New Spainin * . € seventh, , and the Azit‘ees ees e Inj the twelfth| ce nturies oe — from the hieroglyphic a “0 ae —S up the geographi al tables of the cal map of the coun ‘y rsed by them ;—constructed cities. hishwa ve dikes“5; , cana Canals, ls, ees and an and imm j ense pyr ) yra ami middss very verory accupenun rate ntels ely ly signed, cf a base of 1416 feet in leng th.” ‘s w here given of their histori Rae y ‘elr historic al hieroglyphics ancient dates Sd enact , and emigrations! as well as geograph- ‘ The Indians of New Brazil. et case, this continent and -? Spain bear a general resemblance to those who inhabit Canada. Florida, Peru, and 179 subsequent to their emigration to this continent have traversed back and forward round the world d | P e central Asi ed from Asia athe th arts and sciences? Had ad aha this aR they of Israel.—And some things may be given more directRelative to our natives havfly evidential of the fact. in AND ISRAEL, Tee ee 3 & metre beis stupendous pile is compo- 7.“rous le other tel s us,similar “of alternate strata of brick and clay,” pyramids this author notes and “ this ofaut describes the same c | tbesj in those regions, as being consame > :struction, And of theirconstruction he e says says : “« mee ror’ the great ana logy between thelé tink the ot and the temple of Belus at Babylo n, and mg 30 sJPt.” \ rounded Worms ocho Menschich- Dashour, near Sac khara in On the pyramid ef Cholula is a chu rch surWw ith Cyp ress. fe a is “ten T’his pyramid M. Humbolt inthan the Mycerinus, or the ‘Sypoflianthe pyramids of the group of "The1¢ |length base (he informs) is great| g reat pyramid Cheops; the of that than t almos by €xc ee ds half Cee that hize.? er by : of ail the pyramids kn own on the old |