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Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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n than some of more recentbirth, America, so far as her physical history is concerned, of American . Continent. has been falsely denominated the New World. Hers was the first dry land lifted out of the waters, hers the first shore washed 1 See W. Boyd Dawkins, in Cave Hunting, and in Fortnightly Review, September, 1874,who, on this point, follows Dr. Thurnam and Professor Huxley.^ Tylors Early History, etc., p. 206. 12 THE PRE-HISTORIC MAN. (Chap. I. by the ocean that enveloped all the earth beside ; and while Europewas represented only by islands rising here and there above the sea,America already stretched an unbroken line of land from Nova Scotiato the Far West. ^ If then an antiquity of the human race, till recently supposed tobe incredible, be accepted as true, a door is thrown wide open forspeculation the farther we go back in time. The hypothesis of aMongolian migration is no longer indispensable to account for theearliest appearance of man on that half the globe which the most
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A Zone of Pyramids.Fig. 1, Egypt. 2, Central America. 3, India. 4, North America. eminent geologist of this country held to be the older half. Com-munication between the two hemispheres, it is conjectured, may havebeen, long ages ago, quite as possible in other ways as in our era acrossthe sea of Kamtschatka. To account for the resemblance in the worksof art, the temples, the pyramids, the hieroglyphics of Central Americaand Mexico, to those of Asia, it has been suggested that the Easternand Western Continents once approached each other where the oceannow rolls between, and that a zone or circle of the earth was at thatperiod occupied by a pyramid-building people. And to strengthen thesupposition, it is alleged that there are many points of resemblancebetween the Guanches, the aboriginal but now extinct people of theCanary Isles, and the ancient Egyptians on this parallel zone.^ In theform of the skull the Guanches are said to have been allied to the ^ Geological Sketches, by L. Agass

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