Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-27

difference, only, is observed-in the materials
employed. In Mexico the structures are gene
rally of stone, in the United States of earth.
Probably the builders in both cases used that
which lay nearest at hand But to condense
into brief statement the evidences of inter-
course and relationship between the settlers
of the two sections, we find that both
built after the general pyrsmidal type;
both appear to have been wcrshipers OF
the heavenly bodies; both appear to have
worshiped animal FORMS and the turtle "
mound of our country is answered by the
Turtle house of Mexico; the serpent mound
by the Serpent house Of Mexico; the phsllic
images by similar images in Mexico; and
while the monuments of Mexico contain re-
mains which must have been derived from
the United States. the mounds Of the Missis-
sippi valley contain shells, animals and other
remains which must have been derived from
Mexico. This hypothesis is further sustained
by the native records of Mexico given to the
world ny Bras1sur de Bourbourg.
A difficulty i suggested by question as
to the source of those civilizing bearded
white men who are said to have come across
the ocean from the east in great ships Some
attempt to meet this difficulty by deriving
them from tie
ISLAND OF ATLANTIS.
Without throwing discredit on this bypothe-
sis, which derives such supports from the
account of Plato and other ancient authors,
and Is go strongly confirmed by recent ex-
plorstions OF the bed of the Atlantic ocean,
it does nor seem necessary TO resort to this
hypothesis, and on this subject, therefore. we
may well prefer TO await further light. But
perfectly natural and reasonable account Of
these strange visitors may be reached by
considering the time of their coming and the
character of the religion, architecture and
institutions which they founded. We are to
remember that they probably came from five
TO seven hundred years before our era. If we
nov go to the Old World we shall find at the
head of the Mediterranean Sea remarkable
people CT giant energy, great daring and
strong commercial tendencies, whose peculiar
tiles aud grade of civilization strikipgiy cor
respond with those of the founders of this
civiliz ton OF the new world. Tracing these
Phog lcisns backward, we find than de-
scended from Ham and related to the first
settlers on the lower Euphrates, the founders
Of Babylon and BUILDERS If Babel, to the
Philippians and Egyptians, and perchance to
one Of the first immigratiors to Iudis.
EverYwhere they are OF giant purpose and
daring;
THEY ARE THE FIRST cIvILIzERs;
They frat taught the Greeks letters; they
were the first navigators and great colonizers
Mediterranean, visited England and devel-
opsd It's tin mines, circumnAvigated Africa
and navigated the Indian Ocean. Among
the Egyptians their energies were expended
in cyclopean buildings generally of pyra-
midsl type and strikiEgly like the huge
structures Of Central Americs, and not unlike
those of the Mississippi valley. These Pheni-
clans J regard rs the first visitors across the
ocean to the shores Of Mexico and the mouth
of the Mississippi, and the source of its arts
and peculiar type of civilization. The evil
| denees of this origin are TO be found in
the time when this civilization must have
arisen. According to the last data it could
not have varied far from 800 B. G.. 1t might
have been little earlier or lsier. But this
synchropizes with the cuimination OF the
Pho lician power. Pursuing the thought,
we shall find that the serpent and general
animal worship of the new world; its wor-
ship of the heavenly bodies; its dedication
Of the geDeratiye powers of Nature, of which
the phallus was the symbol its architecture
in particular, aud its giant enterprise its
practice of embalming its dead, and indeed
the general type and grade of It's civilization
were Hamitic.
DISCOVERIES OF AMERICA.
But still the question may be asked and
did not Columbus discover America? We
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many other theories Of few years ago, must
yield to later investigation and fuller knowI-
| edge. America was known to the Chinese,
the japanese, and the Malays in the west.
! The former nations had pretty accurate
knowledge oft az Fun-Sang. Ga the other
side it was visited by the Mortimer before
1000 A. d. l. was known TO the Greeks and
Egyptians probably as Atlantis and at
later time wss certainly known to the Welsh,
Che Irish and the Basques. Indeed, so com
mon was the navigation of The Atlantic and
Pacific ocesDs, that on the revival Of mari
time enterprise in the sixteenth and sever
tenth centuries, scarcely sn islaud could be
!. found in any quarter so obscure as not TO hsve
been visited by previous explorers, and peO-
pied from an unknown antiquity. How pre-
posterous the superstition, with these facts
before US, that the American continent,
stretching across so many degrees Of latitude,
| should not have been visited thousands of
| times, and from the time when the hardy
sons of men first spread their sails to the
winds aud dared the unknown Deep.