150. ‘Finch on the Celtic Antiquities of America. 
of years. Itis the duty of Americans to refute this ground- 
less accusation, and at the same time fill up a chasm in the 
ing their attention to the rude stone monuments with which 
their country abounds, although they have hitherto escap- 
ed their notice, or been passed over as unworthy of regard. 
ho is there within the limits of the wide world, that has 
not heard of the name and fame of the Druids, of their re- 
ligious sacrifices, and of their instruments of gold, with 
which they severed the sacred mistletoe from the venerable 
father of the forest, the wide-spreading oak. The object of 
the present essay is to extend their empire a little farthed 
than has hitherto been imagined, and to suggest that the Ab- 
origines of America were of Celtic origin, that their monu- 
ments still exist in the land, and are the most ancient na- 
tional memorials which America can show, and that if anti- 
quity is to be a boast, this continent can produce monu- 
ments nearly as old as any in Europe, and derived from the 
tribes who have successively inhabited the world may be 
traced by the peculiar features of their architecture. hat 
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e primitive families of the earth were destitute 
