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AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES.
THE ENCAGED BIRD TO HIS MISTRESS.
THE SOUL'S TRUST.
MR. AND MRS. TOMPKINS.
ROSALIE.
STANZAS.
'NURSERIES OF AMERICAN FREEMEN.'
OLD AGE.
HUNTING SONG.
THE POOR RELATION.
TO A BELLE.
FLORAL ASTROLOGY.
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTINCTIONS OF COLOR.
TO A LOCK OF HAIR.
WILSON CONWORTH.
HOPE.
A PRACTITIONER, HIS PILGRIMAGE.
OUR BIRTH-DAYS.
LAY OF THE MADMAN.
OLLAPODIANA.
EXAMPLE.
THE COMING OF WINTER.
OCEOLA'S CHALLENGE.
RANDOM PASSAGES
LITERARY NOTICES.
EDITORS' TABLE.
THE DRAMA.
LITERARY RECORD.
THE KNICKERBOCKER.
Vol. X DECEMBER, 1837. No. 6.
AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES.
NUMBER FOUR.
Clank over sceptred cities; nations melt
From power's high pinnacle, when they have felt
The sunshine for a while, and downward go.'
In view of the reasons heretofore suggested, why it is improbablethat either the Egyptians, the Carthaginians, or the Romans, werethe first inhabitants of this continent, and why, from the presentstate of our knowledge, no other distinct nation of people is entitledto the exclusive reputation of having been the primitive discoverersof America, the reader is very naturally led to inquire for the evidencesassigned by the advocates of particular theories for thesources of their origin. These evidences, although important to theantiquarian, cannot, from the brevity and popular mode proposedby us in treating this subject, be critically stated. We have, nevertheless,offered some reasons and inferences of our own, why thoseevidences cannot be conclusive; and we would refer others to ourown or other means of information, should they feel disposed tomake farther investigations. However plausible the story of Votanmay have a