156 = Finch on the Celtic Antiquities of America. 
In Machenzie’s tour from Quebec to the Pacific ocean, 
there is noticed a circle of stones, artificially laid on a high 
rock, upou the banks of the river Winnipigon, which dis- 
charges itself into a lake of the same name. The Indians 
are accustomed to crown this circle of stones with wreaths 
of herbage, and with branches; for this reason, the carry- 
ing place which passes it has received the appellation of Le 
Portage de Bonnét. 
In Purehas’ Collection of Voyages, vol. 3, page 1052, 
one of the historians of Peru, in describing the manners and 
toms of the children of the sun, says: “*'To make the 
computation of their year sure and certain, they did use this 
industry ; upon the mountains which are about the city of 
Cuzco, where the kings beld their court, there were twelve 
pillars set in order, and at such distance the one from the 
other, as that every month one of these pillars did note the 
rising and setting of the sun. They were called Succanga, 
and by means of these stones, they taught the seasons fit to 
sow and reap, and other things; they did certain sacrifices 
to these pillars of the sun.” 
hese are no doubt connected in their history with the 
other Celtic remains, and resemble those druidical circles, - 
e so common in Europe and Asia, and which from 
cles. And thus in ages long since. past, perhaps at the 
same instant of time, though under different skies, the Dru- 
ids of England, and the priests of Cuzco, the astronomers of 
