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even admitting the seeming analogies to which we have 

 alhided, these are so few in nmnber and evidently so casual 

 as not to invalidate the main position : and even should it 

 be hereafter shown, that the arts, sciences and religion of 

 America, can be traced to an exotic source, I maintain that 

 the organic characters of the people themselves, through all 

 their endless ramifications of tribes and nations, prove them to 

 belong to one and the same race, and that this race is distinct 

 from all others. 



This idea may at first view seem incompatible with the 

 history of man, as recorded in the Sacred Writings. Such, 

 however, is not the fact. Where others can see nothing but 

 chance, we can perceive a wise and obvious design, displayed 

 in the original adaptation of the several races of men to those 

 varied circumstances of climate and locality, which, while 

 congenial to the one, are destructive to the other. The evi- 

 dences of history and the Egyptian monuments go to prove 

 that these races were as distinctly stamped three thousand 

 five hundred years ago as they are now ; and, in fact, that 

 they are coeval with the primitive dispersion of our species. 



Art. XVI.— descriptions AND FIGURES OF THE ARANEI- 

 DES OF THE UNITED STATES. By Nicholas Marcellus 

 Hentz, Florence, Ala. 



[Continued from page 57.] 



Genus. Atypus, Latr. Oletera, Walck. 



Characters. Cheliceres large with a fang nearly equal to 

 their le7igth, articulated downward; rnaxillce tapering up- 

 ward, insertion of the palpi lateral ; lip concealed ; eyes 

 eight, subequal, collected in front of the cep halo thorax, two in 

 the centre, and, on each side of these, there is a cluster ; feet, 

 4. 1. 2. 3. 



Habits. Arajieides sedentary, dwelling in silk tubes placed 

 in the ground. 



