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Examine the principal countries in the old and new worlds, 
and there will be found evident traces of a prior and generally 
superior civilisation to that now existing, of antiquities and 
structures whose origin and uses are clouded in mystery. 
India and Ceylon are covered with ancient cities, temples, 
caves and roads, dating from Bhuddist times, ai h even in 
the forests of Java and Sumatra, and in the wildernesses of 
Cambodia, similar relics, deserted and often forgotten, are 
found. : 
In the northern island of Japan, t.e. Yesso, which is ‘fia 
bited by a very primitive race, called the Ainos or ‘hairy 
men,” and which has only been subject to Japanese rule since 
1854, there are numerous vestiges of large cities, roads, 
canals and mines skilfully worked, and other traces of towns 
and castles imbedded in the primeval forest.* 
Possibly these may have been constructed by the Aztecs, 
of Mexico, whose traditions relate that they passed into 
America by way of the Aleutian Islands (which commence at 
Yesso) about the eleventh century. 
Polynesia is full of relics of pre-historic civilisation,— 
temples, pyramids, and gigantic idols,—as I have pointed out 
in a paper read before the Americanist Congress held at 
Copenhagen. 
In Sofala, in South Africa, Herr Mauch has discovered 
yuined cities, possibly relics of the time of Solomon. All 
these relics of antiquity and civilisation were manifestly the 
work of civilised or semi-civilised races, who have now perished 
from the earth.+ 
It is a curious fact that nothing is more difficult than to 
trace the real authors of the civilisation of those ancient states 
which formerly constituted the ruling powers of the world; 
but it is impossible to conceive that this would have been the 
case if arts and sciences had really originated with certain 
individuals, instead of coming from a primitive nation, 7.e., the 
survivors from the Flood. 
If you attempt to discover who were the founders of Roman 
civilisation, you find amidst a cloud of legends that the greater 
part of it came from the mysterious Etruscans or Pelasgi who 
preceded them in Italy; question the ancient annals of 
Greece, and you will be similarly told that Greek culture was 
* See The Leisure Hour, on “The Ainos of Yesso,” by H.M. Consul at 
H: ae adi. 
+ In our own land are Stonehenge and Abury, whose construction remains 
a mystery. 
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