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by manners and languages, are yet of the 

 same species, and that the same institu- 

 tions m:ty originate amongst twenty differ- 

 ent people. The wonder would be, that 

 ilic\ should not shew a resemblance. We 

 find these mounds in every p:trt of the 

 globe ; in the north of Europe, and in 

 (ircat-Ilritain, they ure numerous, and 

 much resemble ours, but less considerable. 

 The pyramids of Egypt are perhaps the 

 oldest moniiii ents of human labour in that 

 countr ruble to the production 



of a numerous population. The- Pyramids 

 of Mexico, which arc but little known, 

 and yet scarcely less considerable, like 

 those of Egypt, have their origin hid in 

 the night of oblivion. 



" Who will assign, as the age of Ame- 

 rica, a period of years different from that 

 allowed to, what has been denominated, 

 the old world ? The multiplicity of proofs 

 contradict the recency of her origin ; 

 deeply imbedded stories of carbonated 

 wood, the traces of ancient volcanoes! We 

 could appeal to her time-worn cataracts, 

 and channels of mighty rivers, and to her 

 venerable mountains. Grant, then, that 

 America may have existed a few thousand 

 the same causes prevailing, like 

 i-ilt-cts will be produced; the same revo- 

 lutions as have been known in the old 

 \\ orld may have taken place here."* See 



I </ /Miiixiitim, by H. M. Brccken- 

 ridge, i-'.M[. 



ANT1KKHINUM, siiafidmrori, toad- 

 ./7<:.r, in botany, a genus of the Didynan.ia 

 Aiigiosperma, Calyx five-parted; corol 

 with a nectariferous prominence at its 

 base, pointing downwards ; the orifice 

 closed and furnished with a cloven convex 

 palate; capsule two-celled. This genus 

 is separated into live divisions, 



Angular; capsules many valved B. 



ipposite; capsules many valved. 

 (!. leaves alternate; capsules many valved. 

 1). corols without spur; capsules perfora- 

 ted with three pores. E. leaves pinnati 

 fid. There are 1J species of the first di- 

 vision : i if the second division ; 



II of the third; ~ of the fourth ; and 2 of 

 the- last. 



ANT1S TUOl'KE.in grammar, a figure, 

 by which two things mutually dependent 

 on one another are reciprocally convert- 

 ed. As the servant of the master, and the 

 ant. 



A vnsTHtipHK, among lyric poets, 

 that part of a song and dance in use 

 among the ancients, which was performed 



before the altar, in returning from west to 

 east, in opposition to strophe. See the 

 articles STROPHK and OBB. 



ANT1TUF.SIS, in rhetoric, a contrast 

 drawn between tw o things, which thereby 

 serve as shades to set off the opposite 

 qualities of each other. 



The poets, historians, and orators, im- 

 prove their subject, and greatly heighten 

 the pleasure of the reader, by the pleasing 

 opposition of their characters and de- 

 scriptions. 



The beautiful antithesis of Cicero, in 

 his second Cartilinarian, may serve for wi 

 example; " On the one side stands mo- 

 dest), on the other impudence ; on the 

 one fidelity, on the other deceit; here 

 piety, there sacrilege ; here continency, 

 there lust, &c." And Virgil, in his admi- 

 rable description of Uklo's despair, the 

 night before her death, represents all the 

 rest of the ci-eation enjoying profound 

 tranquillity, to render the disquietude of 

 that miserable queen the more affecting-. 



AN'TOEC'I, in geography, an appel!.- 

 tion given to those inhabitants of the earth '**' 

 who live under the same meridian, but on 

 different sides of the equator, and at equal 

 distances from it. 



have noon, and midnight, and all 

 hours at the same time, bin contrary sea- 

 sons of the year; that is, when it is 

 spring with the one, it is autumn with the 

 other : when summer with the one, win- 

 ter with the other. And the da\s of the 

 one are equal to the nights of the other, 

 and t-icf versa. 



ANTONOMASIA.in rhetoric, a figure, 

 by which the proper name of one tiling is 

 applied to several others ; or, on the con- 

 trary, the name of several things to one. 

 Thus we call a cnu-1 person, a Nero : and 

 the philosopher, to denote Aris- 

 totle. " 



AVl'S, urirfo/ Sec FORMIC vein. 



ANVIL, an iron instrument, on which 

 smiths hammer or forge their work, and 

 usually mounted on a firm wooden block. 

 A forged anvil is reckonedbetterthanone 

 of cast work. 



ANUS, in anatomy, the extremity of 

 the intestinum rectum, or orifice of the 

 fundament. Sec AMATOXY. 



AOHIST, among grammarians, a ten-*- 

 peculiar to the (.reek language, compre- 

 hending all the tenses ; or rather express- 

 ing an action in an indeterminate manner, 

 without i to past, present, or 



future. 



*" Many of the nmos'uin tumid in tli. wctlern country an u. ixiultd in the museum ofihf t'kiloiophieal 

 Society i.f I'hilailt l|>ln t. 



