The New York herald., 1851-08-26

IN wild state, tney seize every opportunity 10
modest and impose on weak bodies Of emigrants,
while in the presence Of those whom they fear, they
exhibit the most abject submission. Never coming
to an open attack with the whites, they rely only
treachery, and their gnsuspectlng victims are al
ways destroyed with clubs.
Another fact which must be considered rather as
psychcal popularity in the western tribes is the
prevalence Of the SQUADS xl k and Il in their Ian
guages, recalling at once in their softer FORMS the
civilized languages of Mexico These sounds oc.
cur also in the Oregon languages, becoming more
harsh in the most savage tribes among them, too,
is found set Of cultural ana gotta consosants OF
tern tribes. 1t by such anaogies as this rather
than by any affinity of words, that we must be
guided in our researches among sayages. In Ian
guages formed like those Of Indians, by Isolated
families and subject, from the want of literature,
to continual change, but little resemblance may be
traced between the words of different tribes. Where,
however, the mental constitution OF nations, when
civilization has not nterered with the instincts of
nature, is Isimilar the manifestation of this SINH
arity will be noticed in the recurrence of charac-
teristc sounds in their languages.
Although the number of articuate sounds is but
small, yet they admit Of considerable modification,
and although in progress from barbarism TO civil
lization, should the nation be capable Of it, the
more harsh sounds become eliminated, being
changed into the higher consonauts Of the same
ries and the language still retains certain ch arac
ters of it's class, although in modified form,
dering them more difficult to be discovered Thus
the harsh spasmode sounds of the Africans are not
the gutturals of the American Indians these
the same the uncouth sounds of the Australians
The Mexican language, highly cultivated though
it was, and containing no articulate SQUAD not ex
isting in our own tongue, yet retained poiysyn,
thetic structure as its continental character, and
an excess of the ''tP' sound to aid US In tracing
| the Geological division in which it originated.
This is the only mark that 1t retains to snow its
origin, and this is sound absent in the languages
| of the Atlantic tribes We are, therefore, led on
psy chical grounds to class'the highly cultivated
| Aztec with the barbarous tribes OF western Ame-
| RIGA.
As curious analogy, illustrating the psychical
relations existing between the Mexican nations
and the Western tribes, will mention that on
some highly sealptured pipes, procured a, Nisqaa-
see human figures in very distorted positions, as if
| crushed down with inmense weights precisely like
those figured as occurring at Palenque, Uxmal, and
other cities OF Central America as basal or rnanents
| OF columns.
Now, although the comparison between a stone
! pipe and these wonders of aboriginal architecture
nay be considered as triilipg, yet view this smi
larity of esthetic ideas, among nations having no
connection with each other, All separated by such
| lapse of time, as Of considerable interest. II
rightly viewed, this fact should teach US, with the
relations of language already mentioned) that be
sides the spiritual similarity which stamps itself
on the highest as well as the lowest form OF huma-
nifty, there stll more special resem alliances
which are confined, cash to particular race, and
remain impressed that race in the depths of bar
barism as well as under the light Of intellectual
| culture.
1t is difficult to understand why this view may
not be extended to those still more Spiritual ideas
| which are embraced in the term tradition. The
material resemblances in the ornaments OF distant
tribes being founded accordance of prin pies
of harmony and beauty, depending purely on sim-
lar organization in the souls OF the tribes in ques-
tion why sho aid deny to the still higher attri-
butes of their nature power OF expressing them.
selves in a similar manner without any dir oct
| transmission of ideas from one to the other Why
should not the accordance, in thc fundamental OBJ
| apdd of ne mi a..
val religions, be ascribed to this spiritual resem-
blance rather than to the remnants Of a primeval
revelation, of which there is not single witness,
either historical or traditional.
By viewing traditions in this manner, we are
again deeply impressed with the fundamental in
c0rporeal unity Of ths species, while we perceive,
still more prominently, in the difference between
classes Of traditions, the original organic differ
sDce Of races.
The Asso station having terminated their scien-
tifc business, descended to the apartments below
the lecture room, where q cold collation. was pro-
vided for them by the Rensselaer, Institute.
DIR. BEEMAN briefly welcomed the company in
the name of the Rensselaer, Institute; and he wa
too much Of q philosopher to imagine tina. they
discussing the merits Of the cold collation. before
them.
President AGAssgz, with the same conviction
thanked the rep1esenta',Se o. se nss.sse, wHeTe
provisions; after which the company returned t
Albany in the railway cars provided for their @:
pecial uss by their Troy hosts.
ALBANY, Thursday Evening, Aug. Il, 1851
On SOME OF THE THERMAL WATERS OF ASIA NJ
NoR;-THEIR DISTRIBUTION AND ANALYSES. b
PRoF J. LAWRENCE SMITH
The Professor made a coen municaton which wa
q continuation Of q series of examinations on tn
subject, part Of which has already been Published
This paper comprises, first, the waters Of Yalova
near the Gulf Of Nicomendia, and which have bee
for many ages in more or less repu;e, and have re
Gently been again brought to notice. They ar
ebrat <1 in tory fort he Helena.
mother OF Constantine the Great. Temperature Q
the water, Isl 9 to lj6. Fahrenheit specific gravi
ty, l.00lJ5. Composition in grammes, litre.
Sulpha,e Of Soda. ...................... so