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have )een derived ; for in the [Malay peninsula, and where 

 that stem has res/ded the longest, all the religious structures 

 they acknowledge are bell-shaped, notoriously made of straw, 

 rushes, mats, and poles ; or, at most, they are of a Mongolic 

 character, built with wood and mortar. Now, if we compare 

 the Egyptian pyramids, the ruins % of the supposed temples of 

 Belus or tower of Babylon, and of Baradan in Persia, it will 

 be found that one of them certainly had four towers, and, 

 from the shape of the ruins, it had also a projection or 

 propylon, characteristics which mostly occur again, and with 

 the same cardinal aspects, as the great Morai of Suka, in Java, 

 of Temurri, at Poppara ; that at Atte Hura, and the base of 

 the Fiatookas, like the Mooau at Tonga, and others in Poly- 

 nesia ; there are occasionally similarly constructed successive 

 terraces, forming pyramidal elevations in the Marquesas and 

 elsewhere, and these are again repeated in America, with 

 exactly the same forms — one of these at Cholula, exceeding 

 in area, and in cubic quantity of artificial accumulation, both 

 the great tower of Belus, and the great pyramid of Cheops, 

 taken together.* 1 The forms of all these structures indicate a 

 common religious system, more ancient than the extant idola- 

 tries ; they may be claimed by a solar theism, distinct from the 

 subsequent elaborate astronomical religions, but containing the 

 basis of what has since been ascribed to Fob and Budha, 

 which both Mongolic and Eastern Caucasians have long revered 

 on the continent, and in the Asiatic Archipelago. 



The Malay form, whether composed of two normal types, or 

 of three, in various quantities of admixture, can be traced to 

 Ceylon, where the blowpipe, the outrigger canoe, and other 

 peculiar customs and words, give evidence that it visited at 

 least the southern portion of the island. In the same manner, 



* The base is square, and covers forty-four acres, the upper platform is 

 somewhat more than one acre. The elevation at present is 177 feet ; hut 

 this is partially diminished by the ruinous state of the lowest platform, 

 and is exclusive of the temple which adorns the summit. 



