. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 74 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AXU ARCHITECrS JOURNAL, [Mabch, "Man was In andpnt flays of grosser mould, An'l Hercules might blush to learn how far Beyon-I tlie limits he had vaiuly set, The dullest sea-hoat eooo shnli wing her (vay; Man shall descry another hemisphere. * « * * * * At our antipodes are cities, states, And thronged em]itres, ne'er derined of yore.** 'Morgonte Sfaggiore.* Thus snng- Piilci, while Columbus was either yet unborn or in his cliildlioiid, siiiling- toy
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 74 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AXU ARCHITECrS JOURNAL, [Mabch, "Man was In andpnt flays of grosser mould, An'l Hercules might blush to learn how far Beyon-I tlie limits he had vaiuly set, The dullest sea-hoat eooo shnli wing her (vay; Man shall descry another hemisphere. * « * * * * At our antipodes are cities, states, And thronged em]itres, ne'er derined of yore.** 'Morgonte Sfaggiore.* Thus snng- Piilci, while Columbus was either yet unborn or in his cliildlioiid, siiiling- toy boats on the bay of his native Genoa. Rumoiirs liad from time to time been afloat, of ruined cities in the midst of the trackless uoods of A^'estern and Central Ame- rica; hunters and travellers had found masses of masonry and sculijtured stones half hidden beneath the roots of the many- wintered {giants of the forest: but these reports were long treated as travellers' tales, or as the result of a vivid imagination mis- taking some curiously-shaped stone for the work of man's hand, where it was supposed man had never been. At last, exactly one hundred years ago, a party of Spaniards travelling in Central America, found unmistakeable ruins; and on examination, hewing their way through the dense forest, discovered the remains of a city, extending over 18 or 20 miles. ^An exploring party was then sent out by the King of Spain in 1786, but either through jealousy or indifference, their report re- mained unpublished until the papers fell into the liands of an English gentleman at Guatimala, during the revolution of 1822. Still, d(nil)ts were thrown upon the authenticity of this narrative, and little interest was excited, until a paper appeared in the Litemn/ Gazette in 1831, calling the attention of the public to the discoveries of Colonel Galindo; by this time, also, the celebrated Von Humboldt had travelled in Central America, and when his researches were published, scepticism w
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