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Show 902 THE PRESENT STATE i third verses, after Bae this, isae OF icte d their predicte storarestora this supposiir atural aracteristic. Ea places are striking resemblanThese American hich high places are s ie a Consult those in , : sioni of Mexico, as already stated from Mr. reeks : 2 AO and it seems as though they inusta have- been a - s Dy the : same epeople with those of Egypt. ane. fe ee reli kknown n etbjby ancient rereseen and weli tian | Ispyramids were soldiers of Cortez plundered . | Cate upon their high ‘statues of the sun _ ean c , S : by their labours during ee hey etree, s t : : : arry vyp : mids demolished, 10d And what other nation on earth w ps a 1d of Israel’s high places, piles, ‘ , we 2k monuments | % hay deep imuaintance with Gibeon, and eas fuses | d especiall y : nee of the temple on mount Zign their high and sacred places x other account American i «those "ihe ag = 2A, ; high ancient 33 Oo ‘cB Mexic @& group or f the py can more places, ee naturally thay ba a Dan ! a - Wri : t e r oO } : a of the a i Of the pr imp ressions. f the © Archmolp gyish says; bbe OL he, J in ‘ eTThe , / f Se h-east from the capital, north-e = Mexico, eight leagues leagy 5 ad.’ Here are two . tain nammids ial ed— the Path of the 3 Dead eae 5 pyra r of small. er. ds surrounded by Se Sinsl points rae} . oe : rap are streets Witt) . eo vo wes one ne of of these oe s, which form ass. oe. [his writer says, a of the compass. _ f the three great pyramiG higher than the third of the Ezyp t and the lengt h of its base 5) P%9 po ings are is aaa equal to that aii eS the style 0 mi d the Cheops and: the Rbete sn oe f* Cephron. laced with sym the Ezyptian pyramids. “ mee ore ; are eight smaller pyram.ds.plac water,” say Mycernus are all Ito the front o! the great er, fica 2 the . nd writer, paraile en aace aint p ,0ting the resemblance b between not now |o- golden caives ; but those brightest visible Of one of these pyta- the writer says; * so many of their Israelitish rites should remain so concealed from us. Pais newly discovered Pyramid was built wholly of hewn stoue of vast size aid very beautiful. The writer Says> this pyrami d “ nad’six, perhaps seven sto res.” “ Thr ee stai r-ca ses lead to the lop. The coverine of its sleps are “decorated with hierog lyph: cal niches, which are- arranged sculpture, and small with great symmetry,” These niches are three hun dred and eighteen. _ The Teocalli-or pyramid of Chol Ciao ula, near Mexico, (noted before from M. Humbolt) vP IS SIVEN ON a Phe 19 : Sms the Archeology, with its temple on its suinmi t, and, * With its stair-cases of one huadred ai d twenty steps, eading up its loity stories. ‘This ‘ Aus, Was Cailed, “ Tine mMou ltiin made In the interjors Of various huge Majestic pie by hand of man,”? of these <reat pyramids Were found Cousiderabie cavities fur repositories of the ‘~~. b a 4 long peal ‘ramids of Teotthuacan is in the ofralleyi.O -— moon, did > %& 5 ancient veneration.”? Various authors unite in this trait of Indian character ; Whi ch accounts for the fact, that No be Piccuated Lhey their -. a ch formerly led to the platform of The Archeolosy informs of a pyr the Teocalli.” amid toward the Gulf of Mexico discovered Dy Spanish hunters about thirty years azo, ina thick fore st, as though concealed. * For the Indians (says the writer) carefully conceal from the whites whatever was the ob,ect of their . likelyto form such imitations of them, ina es acal cast region, as they? and especially mene a 2d 5 ~ 4 : : We still discover the remains of a stair case bui’: with larse hewn stone, whi os on ee them > theMeydeep jeepabenre impressi ing generationsGant impress fe.g tdin hetheirso eal and places ‘emblems of their Great Spirit. Kg) ae HiaeWw down to succee ie es on the outside with rough stones.’ The two great Mexican pyramids (this aut hor informs).fad on their summit huge staiues of the, sun and moon, formed of stone and covered with plates of gold, which tie res rael a gad it has long been conjectured on s during their bondage in es 7 ) natural and ch a pyramids. ISRAEL. And afte the * four principal stories” of 4 grea r farther notine LD? t Té ocaill, or py-\as— ramid, near Mexico, and Hotlus Its Composition, fie m@ adds; ** This construction recalis to mind that of one be fot the Ezyptian pyramids of Sackhara, which jag six stories,is a mass of pedbies and yeiiow iMmortar, covered _ agree supposition of their descent from ancient laces, as the vi : yn this supposition are most Israel. The es of the Egyptian AND and the Evyptian pyramids. we ein their| own land. ion rac” to theirir heritag SUPPOSI-ue ila ne a No 3 a ‘oin assigned to the America n natives could 80 bie origin asstg 1S t for what we find of tthe. American hich, the 4merican hig events upon JUDAH |
