1U ARCHEOLOGY OF TILE UNITED STATES. 



"American Antiquities;" the second that of "Eesearches into the Origin and 

 History or tiie Red Race." Four chapters of Part L are devoted to an enumera- 

 tion and consideration of the different classes of antiquities in the United States; 

 .and two chapters are taken up with the antiquities of Mexico, the Central American 

 States, and South America. Part II. consists of twelve chapters; and the matters 

 embraced in them are discussed under the heads of " Comparison of Ancient Monu- 

 ments; Ancient Civilization; Aboriginal Migrations; The Routes of Migration; 

 Ancient Navigation, and the Drifting of Vessels ; The Physical Appearance of the 

 Aborigines — their Language, Astronomy, and Religion; The Pyramids; The Con- 

 clusion. 



The whole is characterized by extensive research, and a careful analysis and 

 combination of facts. At the close of the review of the relics and monuments of 

 the United States he deduces from them: "1. That their authors were all of the 

 same origin, branches of the same race, and possessed of similar customs and insti- 

 tutions. 2. That they were numerous, and occupied a great extent of territory. 

 3. That they had arrived at a considerable degree of civilization, were associated 

 in large communities, and lived in extensive cities. 4. That they possessed the 

 use of many of the metals, such as lead, copper, gold and silver, and probably the 

 art of working in them. 5. That they sculptured in stone, and sometimes used 

 that material in the construction of their edifices. G. That they had the know- 

 ledge of the arch of receding steps; of the art of pottery; producing utensils and 

 urns formed with taste, and constructed upon the principles of chemical composi- 

 tion; and of the art of brick-making. 7. That they worked the salt springs, and 

 manufactured that substance. 8. That they were an agricultural people, living 

 under the influence and protection of regular forms of government. 9. That they 

 possessed a decided system of religion, and a mythology connected with astronomy, 

 which, with its sister science, geometry, was in the hands of the priesthood. 10. 

 That they were skilled in the art of fortification. 11. That the epoch of their 

 original settlement in the United States, is of great antiquity; and lastly, That the 

 only indications of their origin, to be gathered from the locality of their ruined 

 monuments, point towards Mexico." 



The results of Mr. Bradford's general inquiry are stated in the following ex- 

 tracts from his final chapter: "The facts adduced in the course of the preceding- 

 investigation, tend, it is conceived, to support the following conclusions : — 



" I. That the three great groups of monumental antiquities in the United States, 

 New Spain, and South America, in their style and character present indications of 

 having proceeded from branches of the same human family : 



" II. That these nations were a rich, populous, civilized, and agricultural people; 

 constructed extensive cities, roads, aqueducts, fortifications, and temples; were 

 skilled in the arts of pottery, metallurgy, and sculpture; had attained an accurate 

 knowledge of the science of astronomy; were possessed of a national religion; sub- 

 jected to the salutary control of a definite system of laws; and were associated 

 under regular forms of government : 



"III. That from the uniformity of their physical appearance; from the posses- 

 sion of relics of the art of hieroglyphic painting; from universal analogies in their 



