The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-07-06

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Toltecs or Aztecs, but ascribed the dis
covery of the country to Mortimer, as
others to Carthagenians, while there
are those giving credcnce to the story
told by Egyptian priests to Scion, aud
rccited by Plato, that in an unknown
age the Atlantic was bridged by land
from Africa even to Florida that this
now sunken continent was densely pop
ulated, and that these people, who
were destroyed when this CONT
nent went down and when
Pixies Peak was upheaved,
were of the race who reared mounds
everywhere in the Valley Of the Missis-
sippi, and built temples and uplifted
| pyramids In Mexico, and mounds in the
Valley of the Euphrates, and pyramids
in Egypt and Mexico. The Natchez
Indians, who ~worshiped the sun and
never suffered the sacred. fires to be ex-
tinguished On the great mound three
miles from the City Of Natchez, told the
same story to La Sale more than 200
years ago that Egyptian priests 1000
years earlier gave to Scion. The Mo-
qui Indians have the same Identical ira
dition, and these, like the Natchez, Pc
culiar in color and race features, tell of
the former boundlcssness of empire of
those who built pyramids and mounds
and temples, and lifted up coeval tenn
pies and tombs in America and Africa.
The opinions obtain that the peopling
of this continent antedates the great
cataclysm by which enc continent was
submerged, of which Cuba and the
Azores were part, and another up
heaved, of which Pixies Peak and the
Western plains, bestrewn with sea
shells, are distinguishing features.
Capt. Stewart states that the terraced
hill, ON which are these ruins of Multi
pee, is 2Sj feet high, assembled by 800
stone steps. Those in front of the
temples portal are deeply worn by the
footsteps of ascending and descending
multitudes. The Alcalde of Multipec
said he had taken much interest in the
Nbhii Wv VI bi's1 IuiIot JuU lltu ulS-
covered no trace VI their origin or any
means of dcciphering strange inscrip-
tions on the walls. The hill itself is a
mass Of blue granite, and we may inn
ngine what mu titudes went to and fro,
and what numberless wears elapsed be-
fore deep grooves across stairways of
stone were deeply carved by human
footsteps.
From the summit of the pyramid the
white caps of Orizaba, 800 miles away,
were a silver cloud along the horizons
verge, and distant peaks of P~opocata-
petl lowered above other mountains,
kissed the clouds and bclched forth
dense columns of smoke by day and
Illuminating the heavens at night with
matchless splendors. The physical
aspect of the old ruin and of earth and
sky about it are even awe-inspiring and
of wondrous sublimity and beauty. The
temples site was chosen, that imposing
grandeur of human design might con-
spirc with faultless beauty and majesty
in nature to excite wonder and admira-
ton. Man never discovered q spot
whence san w~orshipers might transmit
the aroma and sanctity Of sacrifice and
prayer to the dazzling .day-god with
more devoutness or with clearer per-
ceptions of natures glories than from
this massive pyramid. An Appiaa
way, paved with gneiss and porphyry,
nov overgrown with dense for
ests, the stones displaced by the roots
of great trees, led from the pyramid
into the valley. The old MexicanStated
that other like ruins, rs wonderful as
these, and unvisi:ed save by unlettered
r0queToS and Indians, exist in the midst
of ~neighboring mountaiss. Whether
the builders of the temple at Multipec
were coeyal and of the race that dug
| copper in the islands of Lake Superior,
reared mounds and excavated canals in
the Valley of the Mississippi, and wor-
shipped the sun ut Natchez, we may
learn when the international road, mev-
ing slowly across Texas, traverses and
| gives peace to Mexico, unfolding alike
the mysteries of the past and develop
ing the splendors of a more wonderful
future.