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Egyptians, or that each system was the same, and that they had a 

 common origin'^ In further proof we may cite that the Aztec and 

 Egyptian year each began on the 26th of February. Humboldt 

 says : " That the majority of the names of the twenty days 

 employed by the Aztecs are those of a zodiac used since the m.ost 

 remote antiquity among the people of Eastern Asia." 



We will now turn to the testimony of the American ruins and 

 pyramids, and will first consider the pyramids as bearing greatest 

 evidence by their peculiar formation and general analogies, to the 

 theory of early American colonization from Egypt. In America it 

 was found by minute survey that nearly all pyramids were erected 

 with their sides to the cardinal points. Turning to the Egyptian 

 monuments, we find them built with the same careful observance as 

 to position. The Egyptian pyramids were penetrated by small 

 passage-ways ; so also were those in America. Says Ignatius 

 Doneiley : "In one of the largest pyramids of Mexico, at a point 

 69 feet from the base, is a gallery large enough to admit a man 

 crawling on hands and knees, which extends inwards on an incline a 

 distance of 25 feet, and terminates in two square wells or chambers, 

 each 5 feet square, and one 15 feet deep." Mr. Bancroft (Native 

 Races, Vol. IV, page 433,) states that the same gallery "is 157 feet 

 long, increasing in height to over 6}^ feet as it penetrates the 

 pyramid ; the well is over 6 feet square, and extends apparently 

 from the base to the summit. In the great pyramids of Cheops, in 

 Egypt, there is a similar opening or passage-way 49 feet from the 

 base ; it is 3 feet 11 inches in height, and 3 feet 5^ inches wide ; it 

 leads down a slope to a sepulchral chamber or well, and connects 

 with other passage-ways leading up into the body of the pyramid." 



In both Egyptian and American pyramids the outside of the 

 structure was covered with a thick coating of smooth, shining cement. 



Humbolt considered the pyramid of Chohulma in Mexico of 

 the same type as the temple of Jupiter Belno, the pyramid of Me- 

 dioun Dachhour, and the group of Sakkarah in Egypt. 



The most ancient form of the Egyptian pyramids known — that 

 with flat tops. This style is the prevailing form among those in 

 America. 



Senor Garcia Cubas, an eminent Spanish writer, thinks the 

 group of pyramids at Teotihuacan (Mexico) was built for the same 



