. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. Winged Globe. The American Archa?ological Society have come to the conclu- sion that the first inhabitants were colonists from Tartary and JMalacca; and it is thought they did not cross the ocean, biit had wandered to the far north, and so overland to the new continentâ successive races passing onwards, until they settled in the plains of Mexico and Yucatan. If this be the correct theory, it is sin- gular how they could have supported themselves during their northern transit,
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. Winged Globe. The American Archa?ological Society have come to the conclu- sion that the first inhabitants were colonists from Tartary and JMalacca; and it is thought they did not cross the ocean, biit had wandered to the far north, and so overland to the new continentâ successive races passing onwards, until they settled in the plains of Mexico and Yucatan. If this be the correct theory, it is sin- gular how they could have supported themselves during their northern transit, and that they should have left no distinct traces of their footsteps by the way. Evidences of an Eastern origin are, however, not wanting: the winged globe is found over the doorways of Palenque, and the resemhlance to the sacred symbol of Egypt is too exact to have been mere accident. Pyramids, too, and even mummies, have been found in Peru; and in the valley of the Ohio, tumuli have been found, containing conical domes of masonry, exactly the same as the ''tholi" of the Pelasgians. The rapid and rank growth of vegetation in that hot, damp climate may account for the state of utter ruin in which the most modern of these cities is found; but it is difficult to conceive (even allowing for the supineness of the Spanish Indians) how, in the course of a few generations, all record, all tradition of the past could so completely have disappeared: the hieroglyphics carved on the monuments are as utterly unintelligible to those whose great grandfathers must have spoken the same language, as are the Etruscan inscriptions after the lapse of nearly two thou- sand years. The only name the Indians have for the ruins, when even aware of their existence, is 'â 'Ctisas de Piedras," and the in- variable answer to any question concerning them, 'â â¢Quien Sabe!" JLijik X \ JLz /. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally
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