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Among both the Egyptians and Peruvians the walls receded 

 inwards, and the doors were narrower at the top than at the base. 



Thus we might go on through other pages, pointing out other 

 analogies equally striking, but time will not allow ; besides have we 

 not already enumerated sufficient similitudes to indicate that the 

 American and Egyptian races of antiquity had a co-existence, and 

 that the one must have been in some way, direct, or indirect, an 

 offshoot from the parent stock of the older nation ? When we find 

 two such widely separated peoples employing the same form of 

 architecture, having a like teligion, a similarity of customs, arts, 

 sciences, manners and traditions, and each at a date of remote 

 antiquity, it does seem wholly compatible that we should assign to 

 each a common origin. 



The question may be asked, " How could the Egyptians ever 

 have reached America by water ?" In answer we quote the historian 

 RoUin, who states: "The Phoenician sailors in the employ of 

 Pharoah Necho, 516 B. C, made a voyage completely around 

 Africa, returning by the straits of Gibraltar." This, it must be 

 remembered, was at a date long before the mariner's compass was 

 supposed to have been_known. 



From another writer, Gooderich, we learn that " In the tomb of 

 Rameses the Great — 1577 B. C. — is a representation of a naval 

 combat between the Egyptians and some other people, supposed to 

 have been Phoenicians, whose large ships were propelled by sails." 

 Now if 1577 B. C, 500 years after the deluge, large ships propelled 

 by sails were in existence, is there anything improbable in the 

 supposition of a voyage having been made across the Atlantic, when 

 a greater one was made, later on, in the circumnavigation of Africa ? 

 It is true we have no known allusion to America in Egyptian 

 history, but it is a grounded fact that Egypt was a country of high 

 civilization when her history began. Renan says : " It has no 

 archaic epoch." Osborne says : " It bursts upon us in the flower of 

 its highest perfection." Rawlinson says : " Now in Egypt it is 

 notorious that there is no indication of an early period of savagery 

 or barbarism. All authorities agree that, however far back we go, 

 we find in Egypt no rude or uncivilized time out of which civilization 

 is developed. Menes, the first king, changes the course of the 

 Nile, makes a great reservoir, and builds the temple of Pthah at 



