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is yet no West Point to beam upon tlie horizon of their hope ; 

 nor as yet has our boundless national resources kept us — like the 

 children of Japhet emigrating from the ark — from the miserable 

 degradation, and want, of older empires; but the resources them- 

 selves lie all undeveloped in some directions, wasted and misapplied 

 in others, and rapidly vanishing away as centuries roll onward un- 

 der the ignorance and unskillfulness that directs them in others. 



Now what is imperiously demanded for the promotion of scientific 

 agriculture is the endowment of a sufficient number of institutions, 

 fully, liberally, to give support to scientific instructors. Let there 

 be at first four located in different parts of our Union with suffi- 

 cient ground connected therewith to subject to the test of experiment, 

 the various seeds, cuttings, etc., obtained through the United States 

 Patent Office, let these institutions be well supplied with apparatus, 

 good well furnished laboratories, under the direction of men of 

 science. Institutions thus manned, with all needed appliances, 

 would do more for the advancement of this profound science in a 

 decade of years, than all that would be accomplished for the next 

 century under the present system, if system can be said to exist. 



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AN ETHNOLOGICAL INQUIRY CONCERNING THE ABO- 

 RIGINAL RACES OF AMERICA. 



NO. II. — UNITY OP THE PRESENT AMERICAN RACES — ARGUMENT 

 FROM THEIR PERVADING PHYSICAL TYPE. 



Having demonstrated in our first article, the unmistakable id.entity 

 of the present native tribes of this continent with those ancient 

 nations of remote antiquity — the builders of our Western mounds 

 and fortifications, and the constructors of the ruined cities of Central 

 America and Peru, together with the barbarous hunter-tribes of the 

 North, by their uniform resemblance to each other in the type of 

 their cranial conformations, as determined by an elaborate inductive 

 comparison of nearly 400 skulls — we will now attempt to prove the 

 unity of all the existing aboriginal tribes, and will also endeavor to 

 establish the proposition : that this Occidental race of men, includ- 

 ing the Mound-builders of the United States, the ancient Mexicans 

 and Inca-Peruvians, are totally distinct from every race of the Old 



