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(e) Measure and division of time. — Day, month, year ; astronomical 

 facts; chronology, how denoted; measure of length ; capacity; value, 

 (currency.) 



(/) Social state and government. — Civil institutions; political phe- 

 nomena; laws, penal and civil ; marriage; distinctions of rank ; castes; 

 clans, chieftainships ; descent of titles and rights ; totemic principle, 

 how extensive; condition of females ; marital rights to property. 



(g) ReUgwus belief and institutions. — Ideas of the Deity ; priesthood, 

 how organized ; prophets ; jossakeeds ; metas ; nature of worships ; 

 fire worship, how spread ; demonology ; guardian spirits ; compensa- 

 tions for sin ; sacrifices ; feasting ; fasting ; dreams ; dancing. 



(h) Music and poetry. — Musical instruments; music boards; mnemo- 

 nic songs, by symbolic annotation ; rhymes, any ; war chants ; pictorial 

 rolls and devices. 



{i) Oral tales and legends. — Historical fictions; allegories; fables; tales 

 of amusement; concurrent proofs of imagination [Algic researches). 



(k) Medical Tcnotcledge. — Lancet ; cupping ; pathology of diseases ; 

 magic, as applied to medicine and hunting ; botanical remedies ; metal- 

 lic ; knowledge of anatomy, what ; theory of the circulation of the 

 blood. 



(l) Mythology. — Persian ; Egyptian ; Chinese ; Grecian {Bryant) ; 

 Eoman; American. 



{m) Philosophy of life, death, and immortality. — Ancient cosmogony ; 

 notions of creation; deluge; monster-era; transformations; metemp- 

 sychosis ; state of the dead ; ghosts ; witchcraft ; idea of vampires. 



(4) Geographical phenomena as affecting or modifying the physical type and 

 the material and intellectual existence. 



Climate ; interior or seaboard position ; natural productions, as affect- 

 ing physical development ; tropical and torrid zones ; influence of the 

 polar latitudes ; meteorology and topograj)hy generally ; efiects of snow 

 and ice on the physical type, as in the Eskimo. 



(II) MEANS OF ASCERTAINING THE FACTS. 



1. Antiquities and existing monuments. 



(a) Remains of art. — Buildings; antique excavations ; caves; tumuli; 

 pyramids; teocalli; military works, ditches, moats, &c. ; columns; arms; 

 the arch, how developed; mechanical tools, of stone, lead, copper; the 

 lever and wedge ; idols ; sarcophagi ; mosaics ; bricks, art of making, 

 traced ; pottery, how developed ; gems and other ornaments ; has glass 

 ever been found in American ruins of the ancient period ? 



(b) Proofs of mental development in the fine arts and composition. — Laws 

 of proportion in architecture; painting; statuary and sculpture; picture 

 writing; hieroglyphics; phonetic signs; dawning of the alphabet; oral 

 tales and traditionary lore; inscriptions. 



