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AiSJ" ANALYSTS OF THE 



In the Landa (1. c.) alphabet there is a comprehensive fignre tS^ signify- 

 ing "space." In the Algonquin Song of the Creation* there is seen the fol- 

 lowing symbols : 1st. -<(^^^^^^^ which is interpreted, " First being, Omnipotent ;" 

 2d. d 



S7 ) " All beings are friends." Arranging these in order, we have 



o ~ ' 



— c— 



Fiff. 129. 



o o 



o V , 

 — c> — 



representing the radicals of the same composite type. 



'Now Dupaix figures a design attractive from its symmetry (Fig. 130) 



Fig. 130. (t) 



'We cannot fail to recognize here a figure suggestive of the cardinal points, and 

 the resemblance borne by each of the four component parts to Figure 131 is so strik- 



Fig. 131. (t) 



ing that we are led to conclude that the Fig. 130 is a composition, resulting from the 

 arbitrary use of face-radicals, alike to those of Fig. 131. 



This point having been gained we are encouraged in believing that the radical 



* Traditions of the Algoiiqnins (lianiplilet), E. G. Squier. 

 ■|- Kings. Coll. (Dupaix.) 



t Ibid. (Dresden Codex.) Many others similar to this could be given from North American design. See 

 particularly Dresden Codex, and a rock near tlic Susquehanna river, Pennsylvania. 



