ered which can
interest the curious, touch the sensibilities, or kindle the
imagination and fan it into flame.

"There is reason to think that before the Christ was born the old
Iberian ships were here; and their descendants, the Basques, continued
the commerce which their progenitors had established and which
rendezvoused here 1,500 years after the Galilean name had conquered
kingdoms and empires. The Norsemen were here, we know, a thousand
years ago, and many a night the old sea kings of the north drank out
of their mighty drinking horns good health to distant ones and honors
to Thor and Odin. Then, late enough to have his coming known to
letters, and hence recorded, Jacques Cartier came, himself a Breton,
and hence cousin in blood to the Basque whalers, whom he found here
engaged in a pursuit which their race had followed before Rome was
founded or Greece was born, before Jerusalem was builded, or even
Egypt, perhaps, planted as a colony. St. Augustine, Plymouth rock,
Quebec--these are mushroom growths, creations of yesterday,
traditionless, without a legend and without a fame, beside this harbor
of Tadousac, whose history, along a thin but strong cord of sequence,
can be traced backward for a thousand years, and whose connection with
Europe is older than the name!"

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PSYCHOMETRY AND ARCHAEOLOGY.

Whether "the thin but strong cord" by which Mr. Murray pulls the old
Iberians to these shores be mainly historical or imaginative, I have
not attempted to decide; but as to the old races of Southern Europe
there are relics already sufficient to evoke their history by
psychometric exploration.

The _Popular Science News_ of Boston gives a sketch of some old relics
from "La Nature" which I quote as follows:

"Recent explorations in Spain by two Belgian scientists, the
Messrs. Siret, have resulted in some very interesting
discoveries. Relics of a prehistoric race have been found in
great abundance, ranging from the stone age to that of bronze
and metals. These people buried their dead not only in stone
graves or cells, but also in great jars of burnt clay,
accompanied by pieces of pottery and other articles of use and
value. This form of jar-burial is very widespread, and examples
have been found from Japan to Peru. These relics are supposed to
belong to that ancient race which lived in Europe previous to
the Aryan immigration, the va