Show Important Discoveries New York 4A special has the following from Boston Marshall P Wilder at the annual meeting of the New England Genealogical Society today read the following iirivate letter which he had received from Dr Augustus DePJougton Yucatan explorer I have discovered among the ruins of Mayaxan the ghnomen so called by astronomers of hat city a complete masonic temple with symbols and hieroglyphcs I have found the portraits of founders of cities and interpreted the meaning of certain ornaments that have been misunderstood by other travelers I have ascertained that the key to the ancient Maya alphabet alpha-bet is the true clue and by its mens Mrs Derloughton and myself have been able to read the minds of the founders and those of the cities I have found that this alphabet contains letters and characters belonging to the Egyptian Etusian and Chaldean alphabets and also that the Maya language lan-guage is akin to all ancient languages spoken by men in ages long gone by My studies have caused the belief that the founders of the first Chaldean monarchy mon-archy were Maya and pobably the people peo-ple who colonized Egypt and brought civilization to that country You must remember that Egyptian priests always pointed to the west when asked concerning concern-ing the birthplace of their ancestors |