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boul, and the rock cut temple at Elephanta, near Bombay, is wonderful. 

 In Bdoru there are found rock-cut palaces in remote places, only reached 

 through deep canons ; also, uninhabited cities, the dwellings all cut in solid 

 rock, and in a country not now capable of habitation. In Phoenicia are 

 ruins of old walls built of pieces of stone larger than any of our ordinary 

 machinery can lift. 



There is traced a close relation in the civil government of all these na- 

 tions. All possessed a somewhat republican form of government, each city 

 possessing a district government of its own, as does now exist in central 

 Arabia. Their religion was planet worship, and the serj^ent was symbolic, 

 and there are evidences of Phallic worship among all these nations. 



England has her stonehenge, so has Arabia. "Mac," signifying son, is 

 used in Gaelic, and the African Berbers use "mac" in the same way as do 

 the Tudas of the Indian peninsula use the term "Mag." The Irish probably 

 came from Spain and previously from Africa. 



That the Phoenicians traded to far distant places is known ; therefore 

 why may not their ships have crossed the Atlantic? In Mexico and Cen- 

 tral America are ruins of stone structures of a Cushite type, and in Mexico 

 and Peru are remains of roads cut through and over, mountains in almost 

 impassible places, evidences of mighty work. We find also relics of a wor- 

 ship similar to the ancient Cushites. In Colorado, in Arizona, in Ohio and 

 other places are ruins of circular buildings resembling stonehenge, and 

 evidences of sun worship. 



The natives of Yucatan have traditions that a bearded white race came 

 across the ocean from the east, and their historians describe three classes of 

 ancient inhabitants : 1st, the Chicamecs or aborigines. 2d, the Colhuas, or 

 first civilizers. 3d, the Nahuas or Toltecs, who came later as j)eaceable in- 

 habitants, united with the uncivilized Chicamecs and secured power. The 

 Colhuas were bearded white men, who came in the earliest times across the 

 Atlantic. They built Palenque and other cities, and the oldest and finest 

 monuments nf the ancient civilizations, and established the great kingdom 

 of Xibalba. 



The traditions of Peru tell of a people who came by sea and landed on 

 the Pacific coast, and the ancient Malay dialect extended across the Pacific 

 as far as Easter Island. 



xincient G-reek books speak of the island of Atlantis, great and power- 

 ful, and being in the ocean towards the west; and it is not improbable that 

 the Phoenicians in much older times sailed thence. The mythical story of 

 this Atlantic island, Plato describes as divided into ten kingdoms, governed 

 by five couples of twin sons of Poseidon, the eldest being supreme over the 

 others, and the ten constituted a tribunal that managed the affairs of the 

 Empire. The Yucatan tradition has also ten kings of Xibalba, who reigned 

 in couples under Hun-Came and Vukub-Came. The etymology of atlas is 

 found in the Nahuat tongue, atl meaning water, and at the time of the con- 

 quest the city of Atlan existed on the Atlantic side. 



