The Origin and History of the Red liace. 155 



SO generally cultivated nor so well peopled, and the popula- 

 tion had by no means so uniform a type, as at present. In 

 both, the productions are noticed topographically, according 

 to the political division of China as it stood at the different 

 periods ; but in comparing them we must assign the old dis- 

 tricts to the present ones or their parts. This labour is much 

 facilitated, however, by the local-historical sections of the geo- 

 graphy, which always tell us how the district referred to was 

 named under the different dynasties, or to what larger division 

 it belonged. {Bericht iiber die Verhandlunqen der Konigl. 

 Freuss. Akademie der Wissenchaften zu Berlin, 1842. p. 167. J 



The Origin and History of the Red Race according to 

 Mr Bradford. 



The facts adduced in the course of the author's investi- 

 gation tend, he conceives, to support the following conclu- 

 sions : — 



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

 States, New Spain, and South Anieriea, in their style and charaeter, pre- 

 sent indieatious 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, subjected to a salutary control of a defi- 

 nite sjstem of laws, and were associated under regular forms of govern- 

 ment. 



III. That from the uniformity of their physical appearance ; from the 

 possession of relics of the art of hieroglyphic painting ; from universal 

 analogies in their language, religion, traditions, and methods of interring 

 the dead ; and from the general prevalence of certain arbitrary customs, 

 nearly all the aborigines appear to be of the same descent and origin ; 

 and that the barbarous tribes are the broken, scattered, and degraded rem- 

 nants of a society originally more enlightened and cultivated. 



IV. That two distinct ages may be pointed out in the history of the 

 civilized nations — the first and most ancient, subsisting for a long and 

 indeterminate period in unbroken tranquillity, and marked towards its 



