Comparatm History of America and Tartary. 357 



AMERICAN HISTORY, 

 Having observed in their own country, 

 that the solar year exceeded the civil one 

 about six hours, they regulated it by inter- 

 posing the intercalary day once in the four 

 years, and which they did more than one 

 hundred years before the Christian era. 

 They had a distinct knowledge of the de- 

 luge and of Babel*. 



The Toltecs multiplied exceedingly, and 

 had numerous large cities, but a drought 

 of several years gave them a dreadful 

 shock from famine and disease, and they 

 emigrated to other countries. Some di- 

 rected their course to Yucatan, some to 

 Guatemala, and other places, and some 

 families remained in the kingdom of Tula. 

 Thus the Toltecan monarchy ended with 

 the death of Topiltzin, A. d. 1052t. 



Anahuac remained desolate till the arri- 

 val, in 1170, of dk great number (reported 

 a million) of Chichemecas, from Amaque- 

 macan, where different monarchs had ruled 



• Clavigero, vol. i. p. 86. 

 t Clavigero, vol. i. p. 89. 



ASIATIC HISTORY. 

 years, declared that he had been carried 

 to heaven ; but on offering a sacrifice to 

 tiie spirit of heaven, she caused him to ap- 

 pear, and he declared that he had been in 

 heaven during his absence. The empress 

 was delighted at regaining her son, and the 

 emperor married the charming priestess, 

 on whom was conferred the title of divine, 

 and also that of Khatoun* or empress. — > 

 HHerbelot, vol. iv. p. 89. The Turks had 

 been despised and enslaved by the Geougen, 

 Some of the Geougen sought refuge in 

 China, The Turks demanded them, and 

 the emperor was too much alarmed not to 

 deliver them up, when they and their khan, 

 about 3000, were instantly beheaded— 

 Conquest by Mongols, ch. vii. 



The reader may judge of the probability 

 of flight from warriors of this epoch. In 

 the war against Justinian, the Huns dragged 

 at their horses' heels 120^000 subjects of 

 the Roman empire. 



The Chinese have been acquainted with 

 the length of the solar year, says Father 

 Gaubil, consisting of 365 days and almost 

 six hours, ever since more than one hun- 

 dred and twenty years before Christ. — Du 

 Halde, vol. ii. p. 230. 



The Mongols and Tartars claim descent 

 from Japhet. 



In the year 1170, Carncorum was the 

 head-quarters of the Keraits, who are 

 Turks. — De Guigncs, vol. iv. p. 3. Oungh 

 was the Grand Khan. In 1154, Timou- 

 gin (the future Genghis) was born, near 

 lake Baikal. In 1166, his father being 

 dead, he set up his standard, a horse's 

 tail: his subjects revolted. In his four- 

 teenth year, he married a relation of 



• " Aloo wontoowitt in American language, 

 means God above all. Katun&ioovr'ii is a com- 

 pound, which means God, but we are ignorant of 

 its elements." — Remarks on the Indians of North 

 America, p. 28. Aloo, doubtless, is the Alia of 

 Asia, and was used by the Mexicans and Incas 

 in their religion. Turkan Catun was empress 

 of Persia, a. d. 1220.— /fars and Sports, p, 30. 

 Therefore, in America, it was probably, alsQi ft 

 feminine epithet for sopremacy. 



