The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1860-04-14

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nI,,is o,,drpn,dS b;rds rnn,ilss fishes and
insects will certainly he extended to the hirh.
est of her ORGANISMS. far it.appears tn he her
intention that man in every ape-un To the
last one-shaIl have within his reach an ilu
minated and continuous history of her diver
sitied o(fsprirr. including every variety ofthe
family 10 which he brlonps. Wiihuut that
the information would be essentially inner
feet and unsatisfactory. The truth is but
now dawning, that he is ordained to trans.
cribe from her reco, DIS. and post uD in his own
the annals of the planet. ii has been left to
our age TO commence the Great Serial --one
which is to be continued by our successors
forever.
Though the book of geology has only inst
been opcned. and scarcely a page of it read
indications have been found of the cocXisteuce
of man with extinct mammals of the post
pleiocene or drift period, thus throwing back
his advent indefinitely beyond the popular
period assigned to it. But, without further
allusion to the first Of new series Of geo.ogi.
cal discoveries of the highest interest, certain
it is that no people have uccupiCd sections of
the earth's surface without leaving evidence
of their presence in the soil. If not prints Of
themselves in the rocks. An. savage or civil.
lied leave their marks behind them. In this
half of the globe. there is no other source of
information open to us. respecting the races
and nations that have preceded us not even
of the latest. OF the mighty events that have
transpiucd here from the beginning. we know
nothing. and We, evidence abuunds hat within
both the northern and southern tropics, there
have been people whose histories COMPRISED
marked periods Of progress and decline. -
There is no digging into the soil without find
ing it more or less mixed up with vesiises of
art.
Disinterrcd from one of tl,c ancient buryinr
grounds recently discovered in The province of
Chir,oui. New Granada, tie two laIce images
(prrscntcd hy G.. NJ. Tot,en, Esq, Enainpyr-
in-Chitf of the Panama Railroadl are SUP.
posed to have been head-stonc or monuments
in honor of individuals, over whose graves
they are thought to have been placed. -
Whether there is any legendary or historical
authority for this, the Cnmnit,,e is net in
formed. Il is consistent with their cons,,uc.
ton, as each terminates in "A SQUARE tapcrcd
shaft diminishing dowuwa,dS. well cal,l,la-
ted for insertion in the ground, and thereby
giving stability to the figure above.
They are not unlike figures of the god Ter
minus, " hich, in the old world, marllt d the
boundaries of land nor IS it at all lmproba-
ble that in the evidently dense POPULATION of
parts Of Central America, something of the
krd was developed there. The Romans
however, carved only the head of the divinity
on the shaft. Hands and feet were Withheld
to intimate that he never moved from the
place where once set up.
The probabilities are, that these limoges
were idols: and viewed in connection with the
tapcrtd shafts. are American versions Of the
- TERMINAL figures, 50 called Of the old
Greeks and Romans figures both o livinities
and men, and placed within and without the
temples. Such were found in Puinpeii and
Ilerculuneum land ninikn ones Of le,la-cotta
in Egyptian 'olnhs and mummy cases, are
somewhat common.
Both are ofthe same materiala ferruginonS
quarlzose Frldspar. Of volcanic character, and
not hard now, whatever it may once have
been. Both represent men, and. including the
shaft, are within an inch or two Of the same
height, viz: four feet SIX inches. One is in a
sitting posture, TWENTY-FIVE inches in height,
with a Shaft of thlty one inches. The face is
fiat, eyes and nose distorted and irdistiuct
mouth outrageouslv wide and projecting, with
four small teeth in front, and two large ones