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the Globe on its issuing from Chaos^ we cannot 
doubt, but that, in both Americas, the enormous 
fossil skeletons of animals spread over the surface 
of the Earth, have had a great influence on my- 
thological history. At St, Flelen’s Point, to the 
north of Guayaquil, are enormous remains of un- 
known cetaceous animals. Peruvian traditions 
also state, that a colony of giants, who mutually 
destroyed each other, landed at this very point. 
Bones of mastodontes, and of fossil elephants be- 
longing to a species that has disappeared from 
the surface of the Globe, abound in the kingdom 
of New Granada, and on the ridge of the Mexi- 
can Cordilleras The plain also, which at two 
thousand seven hundred metres height extends 
from Suacha to Santa Fe de Bogota, bears the 
name of the Field of the Gia7its, It is probable, 
the Hulmecks boasted, that their ancestors had 
combated the giants on the fertile plain of Tlas- 
cala, because we find on this spot molar teeth 
of mastodontes and elephants, which in every 
country the people take for teeth of men of co- 
lossal stature. 
Second c^cle. Its duration is 1 2 x 400 +4 =4804 
years. This is the age of fire, Tletonatiuh^ or 
the red age, Tzonchichilteck. The god of fire, 
Xiuhteuctli, descends on the Earth in the year 
* Cuvier, Mem. del’Iosrit., Class ot Physical and Mathcm. 
Sciences, year 7, p. 14, 
