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Great Pyramid (which is older) in advance of all other books, in both pure and 

 applied mathematical science, revealed to us in a way older than all written or 

 oral language, in symbols which are eternal and unchangeable, universally intelli- 

 gible, without interpretation, alike to the child and the philosopher, the savage 

 and the scholar. 



The flippant epithets, "coincidences," "curiosities," or "accidents " are not 

 at all responsive to these facts. Like the successive steps in a geometrical theorem, 

 they become, when so often repeated, what lawyers call cumulative evidence, or 

 what mathematicians call self-supporting. 



But it is objected that figures are wonderfully flexible, and that the 666 of 

 Revelation was supposed to refer to the Latin church, till it was learned that they 

 would fit several other names. Suppose they do ! Does that unfit them for the 

 object designed as descriptive figures? Have they no discoverable application 

 on that account ? This is the old objection to the peculiarities of Moses' rod. 

 The description would apply to the magicians' rods. Did not the words Jesus or 

 Christ fit other persons ? But this objection is not relevant to this unique case. 



For a more elaborate discussion of this and kindred topics (including the re- 

 lation of the analytical unit (R°) to this square of 8i inches) we refer to our 

 articles on the Great Pyramid and its symbolisms in the Baptist Family Magazine. 



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Will some of the readers of the Review, who are versed in our early history, 

 inform me if the Missouri river was explored for any distance by American travel- 

 ers prior to the expedition of Lewis & Clark — if so, by whom and the date. 



A. C. 



When was that part of Missouri, south of the Missouri river, and west of 

 the Osage boundary line, (line from Sibley south to Arkansas river,) vacated by 

 Indians ? The Osages vacated that east of this line and relinquished title in 

 1808. G. C. Broadhead. 



I have seen a newspaper statement to the effect that the Confederate Gov- 

 ernment, while in existence, did not possess a seal, and that many of the generals 

 who served under it did so without commission, acting under verbal or written 

 assignments. Is the statement true ? Antiquary. 



As an evidence of the influence possessed by traders over the Indians for- 

 merly inhabiting our state, I will give an incident that occurred among the 

 Osages. About the year 1795, at the instigation of Pierre Chouteau, who had 

 controlled the trade of this tribe for several years, more than two-thirds of them 

 removed from the Osage river to the Arkansas. Chouteau persuaded them to 

 take this step as a revenge on Manuel Lisa, who had obtained from the Spanish 

 authorities the exclusive right to trade on the Osage river. After Louisiana was 



