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traced by its roots or germs from one nation to another. From an _gxtensive list 

 we give a few instances : Genesee of New York, and Yenisei of Siberia, have 

 the same origin. Saratonka of Russia corresponds with our Indian name Sara- 

 toga. Kyogia in Africa, with Cayuga in New York. The Indian name moose 

 is moosa in Europe and Asia. Thus, continues the aforementioned writer, " we 

 may be able to trace the Indian back through all of the historical eras represented 

 by the Hebrew, Sanscrit, Celtic, Phoenician, Arabic, Persian, Indo-Germanic 

 and even through the Greek into the bosom of the Roman." And, we will add, 

 still farther, into the heart of Atlantis. 



Modern culture, for many generations, paid generous tribute to Greece and 

 Rome as the fountains of learning, but of late years the antiquity of Egyptian 

 culture and magnificence is engrossing the interest of students of ancient history. 

 Says one of these, " If ever full justice is done to the 'achievements of a vanished 

 race, Greece and Rome will look small as compared with Egypt." " The people 

 who made her what she was, and what she can never be again, have disappeared 

 forever." 



Modern Egypt bears not the faintest resemblance to ancient Egypt, before 

 she was stamped out by the Persian, Arab, Roman and Turkish conquerers. 



She was in the zenith of her learning and splendor, when all Europe was a 

 savage wilderness. She possessed a highly organized social system when the 

 rude savages that roamed over the sites where now are situated London, Paris 

 and Berlin were engaged in fetich worship. And, at a much earlier period Grec- 

 ian scholars went and sat at the feet of Egyptian masters. Woman's status, says 

 eminent authority, was as high in the earliest days of Egypt as now in Europe 

 and in our own country. 



Historians give us no beginning or infancy for Egypt. She appears on the 

 horizon of history in matchless maturity. Before the time of her first king, 

 Menes, whose reign according to Lepsius, was 3,892 years B. C, Egypt was a 

 " highly organized and governed community." Winchell says " her people had 

 long been architects, sculptors, painters, mythologists and theologians before the 

 era of Menes." We now ask, from what fountain greater than herself drew she 

 this marvelous greatness ? And as we progress, we continue to step backwards 

 and answer, Atlantis. 



That under the waters of the Atlantic Ocezn lies the "parent nation" of 

 grand old Egypt seems incontrovertible as we read the testimony of late re- 

 searches on this subject. So, also, do ancient Mexico, Peru, Central America, 

 and the mound-builders of the Mississippi Valley look back to buried Atlantis 

 for the graves of their an cestors. 



How can the extraordinary similarity of these prehistoric American nations 

 to ancient Egypt, separated by so vast a distance of land and sea, be accounted 

 for if they did not migrate from a common home ? For we read that "the pyra- 

 mids of Egypt are duplicated in Mexico, Central America, and Peru. As, also, 

 are the temples, palaces, public works, agriculture, sculpture, painting, language 

 and religion. And that Peru had invented suspension bridges thousands of years 



