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the Mexican and Peruvian ruins, where vast works of high 

 architecture and niore advanced civilization were found than 

 among the Mound-builders. There is little difficulty in 

 concluding that the Aztecs, who occupied Mexico during 

 the Spanish invasion under Cortez, were the conquerors of 

 several races that preceded them. Among these conquered 

 races, no doubt, were the Toltecs, who were afterwards 

 found in such great numbers, and in an amazing state of 

 advanced civilization. The crania of the Mound-builders 

 and the Toltecs correspond. Now, whether they migrated 

 to the north from the tropics, or journeyed south from the 

 north, I cannot say. I should incline to the latter theory. 

 Industry is sure to advance. The rude mounds of the United 

 States are far surpassed by those immense pyramids in 

 Mexico and Peru, surpassing the Egyptian in size. And 

 those fine architectural palaces and temples, whose history 

 we cannot fully know, far eclipse anything in the northern 

 part of America. 



Whoever they were and wherever they came from, they 

 were doubtless driven southward by the invading tribes of 

 the north. They nobly fought their way, contesting every 

 foot, until superior numbers took them by force. Thus these 

 quiet and inoffensive creatures were finally expelled from 

 their home which doubtless their fathers had occupied 

 through centuries. If any escaped they, no doubt, found an 

 asylum southward, where there were other tribes equally 

 civilized, and, forming an uniou with them or conquered 

 by them, they began a higher and better civilization as seen 

 in Mexico and Peru. 



GrEOLOGY AND GEOLOGISTS IN NEW BRUNSWICK. 



By L. W. Bailey. 



In a recently issued Bulletin (No. XI.) of the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology, relating to the Azoic System and its 

 proposed subdivisions, the authors (Messrs. J. D. Whitney 

 and M. E. Wadsworth) review the progress of geological 

 investigation in New Brunswick and my connection there- 



