ONTARIO SESSIONAL PAPERS, 1914, . ds great scientificquestions. If the eminent Archaeologist thinks he laii dciiphei the secret writings onthe monuments of Copan. Paleiupie, or (Quirigua, or thai the reading of the massof decipherable data will solve the |)roblem of the origin of the American Indian,we fear he is destined to share the of many |)resi!mi)tious anti(|nar-ians who nursed the same delusion long before I)r. lleweit \isiten Central the key to the Maya or Quiche secrcl characters he c\-cr found, and the glypticwritings translated, we are not so sure th
ONTARIO SESSIONAL PAPERS, 1914, . ds great scientificquestions. If the eminent Archaeologist thinks he laii dciiphei the secret writings onthe monuments of Copan. Paleiupie, or (Quirigua, or thai the reading of the massof decipherable data will solve the |)roblem of the origin of the American Indian,we fear he is destined to share the of many |)resi!mi)tious anti(|nar-ians who nursed the same delusion long before I)r. lleweit \isiten Central the key to the Maya or Quiche secrcl characters he c\-cr found, and the glypticwritings translated, we are not so sure that they will Icllect any light on the originof the American Indian. When Champollion found the key to the Egyi)lian hieroglypbics. great hopeswere cherished that the problem of tli(> origin of the Egyptian^ would be mMthcr the characters on the vocal Memnon, nor those on the gigantic pillarsat Thebes, nor the secret wriHnijs on the fallen ohcli>k at Kainac. gave anv clue 23 24 AROH^OLOGICAL EEPORT. rmsipjJRSi hii n. «. ki-,i#£ Colossal Statue.(Palenque, Chiapas.) UKVOlVr. 25 io llu history of pru-liistoric Kgypt. The Abbe Brasseur de Bourbourg, who spentiiiaiiy years in Mexico and YiieaLau, translated into French, the POPIJL-VUH,tlir sacred l)o()k of the C^uiohes of Tabasc^o, and Iclt us a grammar and a copiousvocabuhiry of the Quiclie language, failed m his ellmts lo trace, to his cradle-land,the American Indian. In his able Essay: ; de Thistoire primitive duMexique, he sujiporls ilie theory of a lost continent. Diego dc Landa, who wasBisho}) of Merida, Yucatan, 1573, wrote the lielaciern de las Cosas de Yucatan,enclosing in it a complete nomen(;lature of the characters of the Maya calendar, andthe signs of the secret writings on sonu ol the Maya inonunu nts, could give usonly the myths and the traditions of the aged men of the peninsula, but couldfurnish nothing definite as to the origin of the Indians of Central America orChiapas.
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