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Page 38 - Florida, who had horses, admitted as a certainty, but various of the more antiquated speculations, connecting the old world with the new, are noticed as entitled to confidence; and the translator states that the hypothesis of a Phoenician origin for that body of settlers who peopled Guatemala and the adjacent regions,
Page 25 - incorrupta ßdes " of the man and the statesman never deserted him. It was the pole-star of his life, and, like the " in hoc vinces " of Constantino, always flamed on the sky before him. Governor Davis was a man of large reading, and of wide and minute observation. His knowledge was extensive and various. It was
Page 42 - would find themselves able to contribute materials easily spared from their own libraries, or to point out other available sources of supply. Our collections are already by no means scanty in this particular, and the deficiencies are to be regarded rather as gaps to be filled
Page 41 - by many writers to have been driven to this continent. It is curious to note in what various connections the old theories of emigration are revived. In " Lares and Penates, or Cilicia and its Governors," by William Buckhardt Barker, printed last year, is an account of ancient sculptured and terra-cotta images, disinterred in that country, whose profiles are identical
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Page 40 - expected at some time to make the subject of serious consideration and deliberate judgment. Whether Egyptians, Carthaginians, Tyrians, Greeks, Romans, Ethiopians, Etruscans, Canaanites, Jews, Chinese, Tartars, Huns, Welsh, Irish, Scandinavians, &c., any, or all of them, found their way hither, by chance or design,
Page 25 - to suggest a subject on which something could not be learned from him. He had devoted much
Page 24 - been her distinguished men, and proud as she has reason to be of the long line of patriots who have illustrated her annals and adorned her councils, none have left to her the legacy of a nobler or a purer public
Page 39 - the Swedish traveller, as discovered, some years previous to his visit to Canada in 1749, by Verandrier, about nine hundred French miles west of Montreal. It was a French foot in length, and four or five inches broad, found fixed
Page 39 - a large stone or pillar, and covered on both sides with characters, which the Jesuit priests declared to be identical in form with those contained in books as copied from Tartarian monuments. He says it was sent to France, to the Secretary of State, Count de Maurepas, and was supposed to be preserved in his collections. It would be a point of interest to determine whether the stone is still