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would point US to the tenth hour of the day in which the ecUpse took 

 place. The added three little orl)s again signify cycles. But these 

 are guess-works, which can he confirmed or refuted by future paleog- 

 raphic researches. We return to the reliable results obtained by the 

 imparalleied Davenport antiquities, of which the following are the most 

 imj)ortant ones ; 



1. The primitive inhabitants of North America were no preadam- 

 ites, noi- offsprings of the monkeys, l)ut Noachites. 



2. They Ijelonged to the same nation by which Mexico and South 

 America were populated after the dispersion of the nations in 2780 

 B. C* 



3. The literature of the American Indians evidences that they 

 emigrated from Japan, or Corea, or proper China. 



4. They must have come over prior to the year 1579 B. C. 



5. Our Indians, as well as those in .Mexico and South America, 

 knew the history of the deluge, especially "^that Noah's family then 

 consisted of eight persons. 



<■). The primitive inhabitants of America were much more civilized 

 than oiir present Indian tribes. 



7. The former understood the art of wiiting, and used a great 

 many of syllabic characters, based upon the Noachian alphal)et, and 

 wrote from the left to the right hands, like the Chinese. 



8. They were acquainted with the seven jilanets and the twelve 

 signs of the Zodiac, and they referred the same stai'S to the same con- 

 stellations as did the Chaldeans, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, etc. 



9. They had solar vears and solar months, even twelve hours of 

 the day. They knew the cardinal points of the jZ(jdiac, and the car- 

 dinal days of the year. 



10. Their religion agreed witli that of the Babylonians, Egyptians, 

 x\ssyrians, Greeks, Romans, etc., because they worshipped the plan- 

 ets and the twelve gods of the Zodiac by sacrifices. Compare Isaiah 

 ol, 7 : " Babylon hath l)een a golden cup in the Lord's hand that 

 made all the eaith drunken ; the nations have been drunken of her 

 wine ; therefore the nations are mad." Plutarch, De Is, p. 377 : 

 "There are no different deities to be ff)inid among the Greeks and 

 the barbarian nations, either in the northern or southern countries." 

 Quite the same is re])orted by Cicero, Aristotle, Diodorus, Tacitus, 

 and other ancient authors.! 



*See the author's Summary of recenl discoveries. N. Y.. ISoT, j). !>3. 

 fSeelhe writer's •' Grundsiitze den Mytiiologie und ulten Ileli.siionsire- 

 scliichte. Leipzig, 1848." 



