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Scientific conjectures, however ing'enuous, may fail prob- 

 ably to carry conviction a.sfainst the foregoing' statement of the 

 travelled Antiquarian. ^^"e may safely let the matter rest 

 there. A writer, whose name I forget, alluding to "The 

 Guachos, the ancient inhabitants of the Azores," pointed out 

 the peculiar burial customs of this exterminated people and 

 things also to show how widely they differed from other races 

 on the adjacent continent. He expressed his behef that they 

 were descended from some few survivors occupying an unsub- 

 merged summit of ''The Lost Atlantis." 



