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and from Asia by way of Behring Straits. The Indians remained masters of the 
North, while the Mexicans perfected their civilization in the South. Had Cortez 
worked as hard to discover history as he did to plunder the people of Montezuma, 
he was in a condition to have had his labor rewarded with some of the most as- 
tounding developments of all antiquity. But the old scoundrel b rned, destroy- 
ed, exterminated every link he found, as far as possible, and we now have a few 
relics with nothing but guess work as to their meaning. Everything found now 
should be preserved with ‘‘religious” care, until the key to the meaning of hiero- 
glyphical characters is at last found, and the mystery of the Aztecs and the Indian 
race cleared up. ANTIQUITAS. 
THE ORIGINAL SETTLERS OF AMERICA. 
A deep interest is taken in the explorations about to be made in Mexico and 
Central America, in order to bring to light the lost history, skill, inventions, arts, 
genius and science of the unknown races who lived, died and passed into obli- 
vion on this continent. .Many-remains have been discovered, but much still re- 
mains to reward the antiquarian, the historian, and the friend of humanity. 
One link needs perfecting. The Aztec antiquities now on exhibition in the 
Metropolitan Museum of art are nearly similar in design to those discovered re- 
cently inthe Isle of Cyprus. It may possibly be shown by further discoveries 
that the same race of men who inhabited Cyprus struck America 1400 or 1500 
years before the Christian era. This discovery will show that the Phcenicians, 
Carthaginians, or Egyptians colonized America. 
_ America is an old country. It is an error to say it was discovered by Colum- 
bus. That was only a restoration of the knowledge lost by a certain portion of 
the world, through timidity, fear, and a want of skill in navigation. What had 
been known to millions was no discovery. People talk of the discovery of glass 
and the circulation of the blood as something new. The Phcenicans and Plato 
knew of them thousands of years ago. Thereisastrong probability that America 
was partly colonized by the Phcenicans, Carthaginians, and Egyptians. 
In the elaborate article in the SuN on this subject you are right in speaking 
of American civilization as dating back to the beginning of Assyrian history. If 
it can be shown that American antiquities are similar to those of the Phcenicians 
and Carthaginians, then the race of Cham and not of Sem originally peopled 
America. The same race colonized Spain, Ireland, France, Italy, Sardinia, 
Sicily, and the Balearic Isles in the Mediterranean. 
In calculating the increase of population after the deluge, we may recall the 
fact that seventy souls among the Jews went down to Egypt; in the course of 215 
years they numbered nearly 3,000,000. Still further, the Phoenicians having 
planted small colonies in various countries, these grew into nations.—Cor. WV. Y. 
Sun. 
