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Memphis. * * We see no barbarous customs to indicate 

 primeval state. 



Therefore in a land like this, which was full of perfection and 

 wisdom, when all Europe was but a land of unknown barbarism, 

 was it not possible for her to have planted colonies across the sea, in 

 a country fair and beautifulj with all the advantages of climate and 

 soil, and yet have left no traces of them in her history ? Such traces 

 may have existed, together with the records of her own earliest age, 

 for aught we know. We find her at the first dawn of history, the 

 greatest of the great; we find her to-day the basest of the base, a liv- 

 ing example of the truth of God's prophecy, " It shall be a base 

 kingdom, the basest of kingdoms." (Ez. xxix chapter, 14 and 15 

 verses). As ran her race, so may have run that of her people in 

 this New World. The history of Memphis, of Tadmor, of Thebes, 

 may have been repeated alike in grandeur, alike in decay by the 

 great cities of the American continent. Divine wrath may not have 

 been satisfied within the bounds of the parent kingdom, but have 

 extended itself, an unsparing Nemisis to the root and branch of all 

 the race, and levelled them to the dust in the ruin, savagery, and 

 desolation of to-day. 



Here we will leave our subject. We have endeavored to show 

 by points of analogy, the identity of the early American races in the 

 people of Egypt ; if we have not been fulsome in detail, we trust 

 the want of completeness will be overlooked when the brief sum- 

 mary contained in this paper is considered in comparison with the 

 magnitude of the subject. 



