no special evidence of connection with other continents. 1 "Among the more ancient works" of the west, says another 2 " there is not a single edifice, nor any ruins which prove writer, afford

the existence, in former ages, of a building composed of impe rishable materials. No fragment of a column, nor a brick, nor a single hewn stone large enough to have been incorpo rated into a wall, has been discovered. The only relics which

remain to inflame the curiosity, are composed of earth."

To add force to this sweeping blow at the beautiful theories that have been

woven, the learned Agassis disputes the idea

of the unity of the races through Adam ; while other writers pretty clearly demonstrate that the theory of the lost tribes of Israel has no foundation in fact. Dr. Lawrence, in his Lec tures on Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of Man, sums up the whole argument by saying that, " in comparing the

barbarian nations of America with those of the eastern continent,

we perceive no points of resemblance between them, in their moral institutions or

in their habits, that are not

apparently

founded in the necessities of human life."

This is apparently the reasonable conclusion of the whole matter,

for to pass

intelligent

judgment, the aborigines of

America must be taken as they were found, and not as they

may have appeared after years of association with Europeans, an association necessarily producing a mingling of ancient cus toms with those learned from missionaries, or copied under the