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incloses the face is a character fashioned like the figure 8 laid upon its side, with 
the two inclosed spaces filled with curious characters, and its right end adorned 
with a cresent shaped mark with the horns turned outward. Beneath this are 
other characters in some respects bearing resemblance to those of the Maya lan- 
guage. One is shaped like a wheel with four spokes; another like the letter G, 
with three dots inclosed, and a branch with twigs, shooting from its upper side, 
while others take on shapes the like of which we have never seen before. 
May not these little figures prove to be the lever that shall unravel the mys- 
tery which surrounds the history of that race whose footprints on this continent 
are so strongly outlined and yet so inexplicable, and set at rest the floating the- 
ories in regard to their origin which have been so contradictory and unsatisfac- 
tory? Mr. F. has been offered a considerable sum of money for his ‘‘relic,” 
but refuses to sell. It is now temporarily in the possession of Dr. L. B. Welch, 
of Wilmington, a well known experienced archzologist.* 
* Referring to this discovery we call attention to the tollowing note by a well known writer who sends 
us the article —[Eb. 
THE ANTIQUE PIPE FOUND IN CLINTON COUNTY. | 
To the Editor of the Review: | 
I notice an account in the Commercial of a pipe recently found in Clinton Coun- 
ty, and compare the figures you engrave as fac similes of those on the pipe with 
those in the third and fourth volumes of Lord Kingsborough’s ‘‘ Antiquities of 
Mexico.” Is there any good reason why the theory may not be sustained that all 
the specimens of sculpture so numerous in the Mississippi Valleys may not have 
been the product of the people inhabiting Mexico at the time of the conquest of 
that country by Cortez? The Indians made none of them, but received them all) 
in the way of trade from the far more cultivated race of Mexicans. The speci. 
mens of pottery found on the banks of the Ohio are all of a nature similar to those 
found in Kingsborough’s great work, and were received by the Indians. That 
many of them were deposited in mounds was, of course, natural, as they are also) 
found all over Eorope in similar mounds, constructed by the Scythians and other 
barbarous people. See Martin’s History of France and Thierry. Similar speci- 
mens of sculpture are also found now in the Canary Islands. Why do not the 
facts properly suggest that the artists belonged in all cases to the same race, and. 
that this race found its way to the American Continent, by way of the Canary! 
Islands and the East Atlantic Islands that once stood where now is found the Sar-, 
gosso Sea? That portion of the race that had reached Mexico before the sinking 
of the lost Atlantis became isolated from Europe and was in the plenitude of its 
civilization when Cortez discovered it and ended its career by conquest. This. 
race naturally spread all over the American continent, taking full possession of} 
South America, where Peru was the center of power. In advancing to the North 
it met the Indians, who had come from the north of Europe by way of Greenland 
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