A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . with a humanhead, sculptured from the hardest por-phyry, closely resembles the symbolicalrepresentation of the *om/which appearssculptured on Egyptian tombs. Thecrane in the attitude of striking a fish,also exquisitely sculptured in porphyry,is the universal hieroglyphical symbol,signifying to fish, fishing, or fisher. . It has been a very favorite theoryto derive the ancient or early Americans,in whole or part, for Egypt and Hin-dostan ; and an equally favorite one totransport them from Palestine, fromTartary, and even from the north
A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . with a humanhead, sculptured from the hardest por-phyry, closely resembles the symbolicalrepresentation of the *om/which appearssculptured on Egyptian tombs. Thecrane in the attitude of striking a fish,also exquisitely sculptured in porphyry,is the universal hieroglyphical symbol,signifying to fish, fishing, or fisher. . It has been a very favorite theoryto derive the ancient or early Americans,in whole or part, for Egypt and Hin-dostan ; and an equally favorite one totransport them from Palestine, fromTartary, and even from the north ofEurope! Volumes have been writtenin support of these theories, and themost sweeping conclusions have beenadvanced, based upon coincidences lessstriking than those here pointed out. In relation to the various quadrupedswhich once existed in this region, recentscientific observations haVe brought tolight evidences more definite and mastodon, mammoth, ice, have lefttheir bones here; while the origin of theancient race of men is ;;;«^^^-^ ^. This state is, in many respects,the most peculiar country on theglobe. Its southern border restsupon the gulf of Mexico, a vast in-land sea, in latitude below twenty-nine degrees north; its northernboundary reaches to thirty-threedegrees; its eastern boundary isthe Pearl river, which separates itfrom Alabama, to latitude thirty-one degrees, when the great Missis-sippi becomes the dividing line fromthe state that receives its name;while its western extremity is lim-ited by the Sabine. The whole southern portion of this state, over three hundred miles in lengthby an average width of nearly seventy-five miles, is exclusively an alluvial de-posite. If to this be added similar deposites on the great river and its tributariesabove, it presents a delta of comparatively recent finmation, far surpassing anyother, within the same compass, in any quarter of the world. Even those of theNile, the Euphrates, and every other large
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