nd requires the amending hand of a careful compiler at least, before we
can even obtain the complete knowledge of what has been done with us
already on this historical subject.

_Philadelphia, September, 1838._

FOOTNOTES:

[8-*] Letter to Col. Winthrop, in 2d vol. Archeologia Americana.

ADDITIONS.

1. The Mexican Antiquities have lately been illustrated in many splendid
works, by Aglio, Kingsborough, Dupaix, Baraden, St. Priest, Nebel,
Icaza, Gondra, Waldeck &c. In a clever review of these works (in the
foreign review) it is distinctly asserted that the _Tul-tecas_ (people
of Tul,) or American Atlantes, were quite a different people from the
Later Mexican tribes, that their monuments are equal in interest to
those of Egypt and Syria, with colossal and even Cyclopian
structures--which agrees with my former statements, and I have traced
them in America from Missouri to Chili, but their central seats and
empires were from Mexico to Quito. Their great temple at Otolum near
Palenque was equal to Solomon's temple. Their mythology was quite
peculiar and Asiatic, their maindeity[TN-20] was _Hun-aku_ (first cause)
comparable to _Anuki_ the Syrian Cybele, their Astronomy was
antediluvian, the year of 360 days or 18 months of 20 days.

2. The first monuments of the United States may be ascribed to the
_Talegas_, a northern branch of these Atlantes. The oldest monuments of
Peru long before the Incas with those of Brazil and Oronoco are related
thereto, and were erected by their Southern tribes, the _Atules_ and
_Talahets_.

3. In a late work of Harcourt (1838) all these ancient monuments of
America, Africa, Europe and Asia, are ascribed to the _Arkites_ saved at
the flood of Noah; which was also the previous opinion of M'culloh in
his American researches. But some Antiquaries are yet seeking in America
traces of the _Adamites_.

4. The _Tulawas_ and _Telingas_ nations and languages of Decan of
Southern India, are probably of Atlantic or Tulanic (Syn. of Turan or
Tartary) descent; and these nations sent colonies furher[TN-21] east in
early times to Polynesia and perhaps as far as America! yet the bulk of
Oceanic population from Madagascar to Japan and Australia is of Hamite
descent, by the regular structure of all the languages; while this
seldom happens in America as in China and Tartary.

5. The late attempts of tracing analogies of origin and descent between
the Chinese and Polynesian Nations, are quite v