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of the Celtic and other languages of W. Europe with the Sanscrit, 

 which afford as strong an evidence as we can be expected to obtain 

 of a connection so remote between races so widely separated. Dr. 

 Wise says that the names of mountains, rivers and other great natural 

 features of the south and west of Europe, bear evidences of its 

 having been in the possession of a Celtic race anterior to the earliest 

 date of authentic history, and this early connection indicates a line 

 of enquiry by which much of the obscurity resting over the earliest 

 monuments and history of Europe may be cleared away. May not 

 the same test be applied to the monumental records of the race long 

 passed away on this continent, prior to the Indian, known to us as 

 the " Mound Builders," and whose cyclopean works have survived in 

 the ruined cities of Central America, and are regarded by even the 

 native tribes there, with such superstitious awe that they avoid fre- 

 quenting them in any way? Some of these mounds and stone 

 records, along their line of advance southward, bear a striking resem- 

 blance to the Druidical circles, and would thus point to one common 

 origin. 



Dr. Wise says the general identity in idea and design of the 

 European monuments with those of Hindostan, is so marked as to 

 justify the inference that races of Asiatics proceeded westward at 

 different ages, and established themselves along the shores of the 

 Baltic and Mediterranean, and part of the Atlantic coast, along 

 which they have left characteristic monuments, which resemble those 

 of their original country. These races appear to have proceeded 

 westward by Scythia and Scandinavia on the one hand, and by the 

 shores of the Mediterranean on the other. We find the same crom- 

 lechs and pillar stones in Circassia, Tartary, Asia ' Minor, Sardinia, 

 the Atlantic shores of Spain, Gaul and the British Isles. May not 

 another exodus have taken place eastward from Asia across the 

 Behring Straits to the American Contfnent, and proceeded south- 

 wards along the line of mounds which remain as landmarks of their 

 route, and which may become, in the hands of Archaeologists, con- 

 necting links to prove the identity of their builders with a Hindoo 

 ancestry, just as the sun worship of Peru and Mexico, which I have . 

 described, is a remnant and the connecting link with the fire worship 

 of Assyria, Chaldea and Persia, and of the rites of Moloch and Baal ? 

 In connection with this, Dr. Wilson says in his " Prehistoric Man," 

 the worship of the Sun, though associated with ancient rites of 



