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North and South America, their history is 
not less fraught with analogies in the poli- 
tical and religious revolutions, from which 
dates the civilization of the Aztecks, the 
Muyscas, and the Peruvians. Men with 
beards, and with clearer complexions than 
the natives of Anahuac, Cundinamarca, 
and the elevated plain of Couzco, make 
their appearance without any indication of 
the place of their birth ; and, bearing the 
title of high priests, of legislators, of the 
friends of peace, and the arts, which flourish 
under its auspices, operate a sudden change 
in the policy of the nations, who hail their 
arrival with veneration. Quetzalcoatl, 
Bochica, and Manco Capac, are the sacred 
names of these mysterious beings. Quet- 
,^lcoatl, clothed in a black, sacerdotal 
robe^ comes from Panuco, from the shores 
" of the Gulf of Mexico; Bochica, the 
- Boudha of the Muyscas, presents himself 
on the high plains of Bogota, where he ar- 
rives from the savannahs, which stretch 
along the east of the Cordilleras. The 
