. Young folks' history of Mexico. PHCENECIAN VESSEL. had just such temples and palaces of stone as we find inYucatan to-da\^ lyii^g ii^ ruins in the wilderness. Did thePhoenecians visit this country by coasting the shores ofAtlantis, or did part of the Atlantides themselves escape toCentral America and there build the cities buried in thevast forest there now ? It has not been proven that theydid, any more than that the Jews came from the north, orthe Malays and the Japanese from the west. And what has been proven by all our study of the ruinsand the records of this people ?. PHCENECIAN ARCHIT
. Young folks' history of Mexico. PHCENECIAN VESSEL. had just such temples and palaces of stone as we find inYucatan to-da\^ lyii^g ii^ ruins in the wilderness. Did thePhoenecians visit this country by coasting the shores ofAtlantis, or did part of the Atlantides themselves escape toCentral America and there build the cities buried in thevast forest there now ? It has not been proven that theydid, any more than that the Jews came from the north, orthe Malays and the Japanese from the west. And what has been proven by all our study of the ruinsand the records of this people ?. PHCENECIAN ARCHITECTURE. Various Theories. 23 Only this, that there has long existed in Central America— in which we would embrace Southern Mexico and Yu-catan — an American civilization superior to any other onthis continent at the time of its discovery. There remains still one more theory to consider: Was itpossible for this civilization to have been developed by thepeople placed here by the Creator ? Was it possible for the Creator to place men and womenhere originally, without making them pass over from theother continent? It was possible, was it probable ? Some there are who think that this was done ; who claimthat our continent is oldest, according to its geological for-mation, and that it was as likely that people passed to theeastern hemisphere from the western as that they shouldhave passed to the western from the eastern. It is difficult for those who hold this theory to account inany other way for the many peculiarities in American ar-chitecture, for the totally differe
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