New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-01-17
Dr. Hawke. Lectares.

column, that the second Lecture OF his Series upon
American Antiquities, viii be delivered ct Nioso
| By DR.. HAWKS this evening. The subject OF ms
course IS one to which DR.. II. has devoted close
attention for many years and his Investigations
have resulted in the conviction, that in the archi
tectural monuments, the scuIptured symbols, the
religious rites and other antiquities Of this Western
/ Continent is found stroas Incidental, and there
fore unsupported testimony, in favor OF the authen
,icity of the Mosaic Record. The purpose of these
Lectures, as be stated in his introductory discourse
! last Thursday evening, is continue, into de-
Partment then barely touched, the Course which
he delivered some years ago when the subject was
but comparatively little known and to shaw by
! the marked resemblance of certain monuments
such as symbols and architectural designs, recently
brought TO light-to specimens found In the East
ern world, that the original inhabitants of this
Continent may be traced back to the plains OF
Shinar
He spoke in terms of warm commentator Of
the labors OF STEPHENS and CATHERwooD, and OF
Mr.. NORMAN, in the personal explorations they
! had made, and of the work the general subject
by hr. BRADFORD /; and expressed the most ar
dent admiration for the accuracy of delneation
with which the two distinguished travellers first
named have prepared drawings Of the wonderful
discoveries which they made. Their new work
BY the way, will be before the public witha few
weeks. 1t has been thus far delayed, we under
stand, by the extreme difficulty attending the
ful preparation Of its copious Illustrations.
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should pursue in this course of Lectures would be-
]. To travel over the route-to give general i'm
preston of the wonderful discoveries which had
been made, and of the monuments from the past
which would furnish ground for the general
conclusion concerning the origin of the American
Race. .. To present, as necessary to clear IN
derstanding of the subject brief history of Pa
ganism 3. To bring forward the particular OBJ
iects of notice, with comparative view of similar
or analogous objects in the Eastern Hemisphere.
q. After the relationship between the symbols, &C.
of the Eastern and Western Hemspheres has thus
been established, to inquire how it arose; and
;. To present the general conclusion to which we
are necessarily led by these Investigations, and to
express, as suggested by the scope of the prece-
ding remarks, conviction that the efforts Of
modern science-not 10 corroborate but to under
mine the Sacred historical record of Moses-have
been entirely misplaced. This, DR.. H. said was
the field which he had marked out; and if there
should seam TO be any pedantic display of learn
| ing he begged that it might be attributed TO a
sincere desire to make at once clear and full the
proof he had TO submit, and not to any unworthy
metve of vanity or concet.
Each of the points indicated above will proba-
bly, be made the subject OF separate Lecture
| The first was a general examination of the route ;
and was illustrated by some very fine drawings,
prepared under The direction of DR.. HAWKS for
the purpose, from engravings kindly loaned him
By Mcssrs. STEPHENS & CATHERwooD, of the
most noted remains which they found in their jour
ney. With the aid of these illustrations DR..
HAWKS followed The travellers over their route and
described graphically and clearly the character of
the architectural and other designs found at CO.
pun, Qurigua, Paenque, Uxmal, kabah, Labna,
| Labphak, Chchen-Itza Cozame, Izamel and
| Axe from many of which he brought forward orig
| nal specimens-the Others unfortunately having
been burned at the destruction Of Catherwood's
Panorama. He concluded his Lecture by some
general remarks concerning the difference of arch
itccture to be observed in these remains, their
probable age and the ignorance of the inhabitants
az to their existence He remarked, as one of
the conclusions to which travellers had arrived,
| that they all seemed to be public temples or in
some way connected with the ancient rites; and
this fact viii furnish essential aid in understanding
their Specification They remarkable generally
for having openings only one side, have no reg
ular arch and are found to occur chiefly along the
Western Coast OF the Continent. Among the
symbols that are found often to recur upon them
are the ring, the serpent the crescent, the croco-
die and others which are well known ard easily
read by all familiar with Eastern hieroglypaics.
The Lecture, this evening being in the regular
erder, will comprise, we presume, sketch of the
history of Paganism and farther sxpositions Of the
character Of the remains recently broug hit to light.
Apart from the intrinsic interest of rhe subject the
elegance of language and the eloquent delivery of
the Lecturer cannot fell to render his di.courses
highly attractive TO every one who hears them
Though connected together by definite purpose
each mas still sufficient interest in itself richly to
reward even an occasional attendance.
HoRRIBLE CRUELTY AND DEArH-The Hart
fsrd CT Review of the l4th contains notice of
one of the most melancholy deaths we have seen
on record for many days. On Tuesday morning.
the Sd of January, between and o'clock a
wagon loaded with wood drove up to store in that
CITY, driven by a man named Vets, from CRANKY
Is miles distant. The morning was one of the
coolest known for Macy years, and lad about IA