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ent on descent through the female line.* It seems 

 not impossible that the tradition of the Tower of 

 Babel includes the construction of a huge communistic 

 building on this plan, intended to bind together the 

 early tribes of men in a communistic league, and in- 

 vestigations should be made as to the probability of 

 similar arrangements among the cave-dwellers and 

 other primitive inhabitants of Europe. At this day 

 there remain Pueblos of this kind on the table-lands 

 of New Mexico, where they are inhabited by the 

 Moqui tribes ; and ruined edifices of the same type, 

 known to have been occupied by the ancestors of these 

 people at the time of the Spanish conquest, are from 

 300 to 400 feet in length, with four to seven storeys 

 of stone rooms rising in successive terraces, and one 

 of these is said to have been capable of lodging 600 

 families. When we come to consider the domestic 

 institutions of these people, and to compare them with 

 those of pre-historic Europe, we shall have occasion 

 to return to this subject. 



Instead of a rampart of earth, perhaps with pali- 

 sades on top like those of the forts of the Iroquois 

 and the mound-builders, the Hochelagans had a wall 



* It seems in every way probable that tribes whose families 

 combined to erect such structures as the Swiss lake habita- 

 tions, retained the primitive tribal communism. Their houses 

 as restored, for example in the papers of Mr. Walker (Leisure 

 Hour, ISTov. 1873), resemble the " long houses " of the Iroquois, 

 and Sir John Lubbock has figured in his " Pre-historic Times " 

 what he regards as a clay model of a lake hamlet, which in the 

 essential features of its plan is similar to the houses of 

 Hochelaga. 



