AMERICAN 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS. 
[SECOND SERIES.] 
. Arr. L—Some Observations on. the Ethnography and Arche- 
ology of the American Aborigines ; by Samurn Grorer Mor- 
ton, M. D., Author of the Crania Americana, Crania Aigyp- 
tiaca, &e. 
Norarse i in the progress of eects knowledge is more remark- 
able than the recent discoveries in American archeology, whether 
we regard them as monuments of art or as contributions to science. 
The names of Stephens and Norman will ever stand beernney? 
for their extraordinary revelations in Mexico and Yucatan ; which, 
added to those previously made by Del Rio, Biumbolis, Waldeck 
and D’Orbigny in these and other parts of our continent, have 
thrown a bright, yet almost bewildering light, on the former con- 
dition of the western world. 
Cities have been explored, replete with wsiehee. bas-reliefs, 
tombs and temples ; ; the works of a comparatively civilized people, 
who were surrounded by barbarous yet affiliated tribes. Of the 
builders we know little besides what we gather from their monu- 
ments, which remain to astonish the mind and stimulate research. 
They teach us the value of archeological facts in tracing the 
primitive condition and cognate relations of the several great 
branches of the human family ; at the same time that they prove 
to us, with respect to the American race at least, that we have as 
yet only entered upon the threshold of one: 
Secoxp Sires, Vol. II, No. 1.—July, 1846. 
