The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-02-09

Cartilage having arrived from grea, ,rao,ssi,u,is con
uDsrt, who I'M lated In ell toe rek 500 mysteries
ano soQnred knowledge of certain hooks which
bad for q long time beer hidden under gcoprd" The
suadrs,o with this vi TO Garth re; Su, the DARK
OF the earth spoken or by him had reference probably
TO religious nyser,es In csverus and sub,eryAnsaa
places the route Of Votsn being such woult oaip
hh initiation Into those ysteres. The lecturer believed
thai those steyies found their way America and
taas TOO, by Vosr, who, in M: history, expressly
stated hat alter his return from Vaun Chvy caused
eobterranean passage, the hole or the snake TO be
made at certain place, and tho place described appears
10 DO In the aims OF PaenQue A subterranean
there would have been $50 miles lorg This
not probable, and yet little curious thAt Stephens
wnen ne vas at this very place and wanted 20 60 from
Opozngo to Pseuque the aoalde solemuly ssurd HIN
that ~ the foot OF . certain mountain there
trance that communicated directly With the russ OF Pa
ltpque, and stephens says this vas tradition.
The preservation memory OF the fact added
thing TO the authenticity If the manuscripts The place
or houses OF the thirteen serpens the lecturer believed
TO be the thire Car AIRY slauds which we're settled by
the CAraanes from the shores OF the Mediterranean,
where they spoke the Punc language according TO st.
Augustine Tie Inhabitants OF those Islands were Chives
were Hivi.es The place visited by ytau YVES Jerusa
lem and the building the temp Of Solomon, the leo
tUrers opinion: ond this would give US about one
thousand years O. The ruins OF structure that went
up to heaven, doubt had ausion to Baba In fact,
Ordonee quite indignant that the Baby onAns should
have told yotap such terrible lie in saying thai the edi
fee was erected by command Of yher common ancestor
Noah saying II patriarch had nothing TO do with II.
ordonas died in 1871 or Nan advanced age having 10
COPY Of his manuscript he sent copy to Spain about the
close Of the last century to have printed, ard probably
tory Of Mexico a work treating OF the oisn OF Pa
epque, which he Jays he saw In Nadd IN 1905 In pos
session Of party who wa; TO gst pm sd frss"e1s OF
bour. In view Of such state Of facts 1t wa, not possible
to doubt in the first place that there was writing 10 Qua
temals and second that among them there was history
thai protested 70 have been written BY III.
yotan a. far back a. 1883; aud thirdly that
there Is so,y contained In that history Translated ~
shrao thnrN all akt % n
gusge Nor tho lecturer aware or snythiug to dis
prove the genuness or authenticity Of that document
America nch they destroy cd but not all snd who shall
say how long written language existed tnere The time
was when IL was sad IL smpo:'ole 70 re.d the Eggp
was IL any more improbable that the hierogyPhcs OF
this continent should be resdf The subject had been too
long neglected. When the lecturer commenced his In
veetg atoms knew OF hut one frag uent Of Q manu-
ecrpt he row hal four or fve aud he hat learned to
respect them because certain things IN them were
The audience would nov why the lecturer turned Of
the shores OF the Mediterranean for his solution Of
manuscript that he then knew carried him TO that 10.
cay also becauee he wss quite willing to apply test
though NOT indeed the best tes OF the ACCURACY OF the
statements mAdo by yotsn TO the origin OF his people
But he had another reason derived from manuscripts,
confirming Voiau In most important particular The
vIrny Of Me,co manuscript dated 1853 little less
than tn rty years after the taking OF Mexico BY the
spauards 1t was translated from the original hsxcan
original manuscript being My hie,ogiy phos Ono por
ton Of ported to be history o. the nrst settlement
given in the Mexican tongue its meaning 10 both aa
guases was the same-,he "Cty Of scrpenu" or
"Keipg" The third part began th1s;1" Here
be verified, which took place . long time
sso-iha Of rediv sion OF the earth and ths mode 10
which The sun (monarch) divided 1t and from the be-
yeaYs this i2d day OF May 1883" That IS the ~holo
lime named In this manuscript is 26i3 years from wbch
snAte hef.N ~ fhpisss
the c,pmsr cement Of the Qu!ohe kingdom and the
dale OF the on sn oil Pserque According to the Mexican
manuscript Ofdona says II wa, something lee: thnS 1000
clan, Puric Trsyc alphabet. together with letters
the hieT yphics In America and showed
that In many OF those letters there sukiug resem
bapce He bad made effort TO form the loters into
words for Vie obvo1s that the pictorial chrac
tsrs rsaited 10 be interpreted He bad no coub, OF the
characters being alphabetical ard that they CONCEDED
9th the ancient Pho ncaI aptaoes used on the shores
Of the Mediterranean. So there must be some mode
cared rot wha, hypothesis WAS sssumcd-he fact Of a
commupnlcat'on Between the inhab tanA OF Northern
Africa WAS involved, aud that an ,nstn was male o.
early period 10 this continent The lntan manuscript
QLsd The date al lccc years b G might turn
opt to be more ihan hat The proposition tha.
took place scros the Atlantic 70 ths continent
ope thousand yesrs before the Christian era which
se,ied Ceptvsl sneriGss IN regard TO the pictorial
writing which we Mingled with the pho et,, the
lecturer would say nothing, because nothing had been
discovered s he would not stss The truth he TO
cay bad found nothing about H. Some Of the
~ nbos he'd alsd the mind OF M stephens with super
sron That OF the red hand impressed upon The walls
OF YucitAr, one which bao socome perfectly plain
ard familiar. much 90 that bis departed friend would
emile At the superstition with which be eszec Ut It, so
With TIE ser pent IL had definite meaning aud the SER
psnt with human head In iU mouth, voicn 10 the Dr.
va long time an enigma bad uafoide1 itseli The
work OF uprsvenr them long and tedious one the
present light EmmeYDr. but gradually Frightening;
bu, YET he preferred quietly TO pursue h,s aeors aud
70 be, for The presen. keeping silent These lectures
iad beon giver ut the request OF bis biends.