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j passed beyond the Pillars of Hercules to return no more—these are inquiries • I to be solved by him who translates the story inscribed on this tablet and on that in the old temple of Guanajuato.1 If Congress should appoint a commission to survey the lowlands of the Mississippi, not only with reference to the possibility of controlling its floods, much migift be done in the way of exploring the hidden mysteries of the swamps, once the sept of this unique I and ancient civilization.I The Stoddard County tablet has been forwarded to the learned Orientalist of Harvard University. Though the similarity between the characters employed by the Mound-builders and the Sanerit 44 letters ” is striking, it is perhaps only fanciful, and a careful analysis of the structural forms of the glyphs may reveal no likeness whatever to any alphabetic language. In fact, the inscription may be wholly idiographic, and the language employed by the writer may not have been developed into lexicographic unity. If this be true, speculative archaeologists may again infer that this was the oldest of inhabited continents and the seat of the earliest civilization of our race.—New York World.
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Bowling Green Review
Bowling Green, Indiana, US
Thu, Apr 05, 1877
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