200 The Life and Writings of 



192. The Ancient Monuments | of | North and South America, 

 second edition, | Corrected, enlarged and with some additions, 

 | By C. S. Rafinesque, A. M. Ph. D. | Professor of Historical 

 and Natural Sci- | ences, Member of many Learned Societies 

 in | Philadelphia, New York, Lexington, Cincin- | natti, Nash 

 ville, Paris, Bordeaux, Brussels, | Bonn, Vienna, Zurich, 

 Naples &c, the Amer- | ican Antiquarian Society, the North 

 ern An- | tiquarian Society of Copenhagen &c. | The massive 

 ruins the arts and skill unfold | Of busy workers, and their 

 styles reveal, | The objects and designs of such devisers : j 

 In silent voices they speak, to thinking minds | They teach, 

 who were the human throngs that left | Uplifted marks for 

 witness of past ages. | Philadelphia | 1838. | Printed for the 

 Author. (8vo, pp. 1-28.) 



There was never a &quot; first edition&quot; of this pamphlet 

 printed, as might be justly inferred from this title. The 

 matter comprised in this paper appeared in the journal 

 named in the following title. The &quot;Additions&quot; comprise 

 pages 25 to 28, and contain some curious matter. The 

 addition &quot;n&quot; is particularly interesting reading. It runs 

 as follows: 



&quot; In my work on Historical Palingenesy or the restoration of 

 ancient nations and languages presumed lost, I have been able to 

 restore many of all the parts of the world (but chiefly America and 

 Europe) in the same manner as I once did for the Haytian nation 

 and language, whereby many historical links will be evolved and 

 traced. My process is similar to that of Cuvier and the modern 

 Paleontologists, who restore extinct animals by fragments of their 

 bones. I do the same with extinct languages by fragments of their 

 words and elements, discovered and put together.&quot; 



