Show MI IStItNbtot limtottIItlttJis On ifooday Ibe Son Frnotsoo Cbroulole published the following die patch trout il rmosllo Mexloil I A rock recently discovered lu the mountain ol Mngdalena dtitrict 0 tuie of aouora whIch bu oorirod whit Chi new luscrlpilona Ins been vIsIted by bou Yup a coil uducaled Chinese of U i aymai lit > ay < the Incrlplloua Cblnrai hot are umenbat ludlsllnot lie made a copy of thou aud hoe traui laoj vuouuU of I lie lines loeboir that oil oriOlowez rbobly IlIacrlbd ou bo rock 112WU yours ago bero are 1011 Iloou u character au Ih era no the foci io vtuiv and sue of the Hue I Day be Hill burled ondor the aoelh fbar are onelooud Cbl eAso Iolllb and monunienta to the nerlh of Magdaleua near Ibo mining oamp of doljaee nt acoba Tbeae bavo never boon explored ex-plored Item Yup asserts that lathe I history of rtm bla r Chtou I there I lea 1 tradItIon that an oiplor log expedition divided Into eighteen parties landed on the western cott of what Is noir Mexico ever twenty om tortes ago There are several slight Inacouriolct I In the foregoing whioh show that Ibo ne dlseoverej It not ooverej wIth i bines Inscription of annual dated date-d tbat It Sen Yup made the Itatc mlIl credIted to him be It I nolan well educate at claimed partteularl l In the lejenJury lore of hIs own untry In the DUI plaev the tndl line that bo refere lo Is that wliu the ChInese bad a aIarlnz class of 1 popu silnn wblob they lay was from 2000 10 4000 years ego their ships made yagtato the norlij landing along Ih a Kuislau oosst Ibo Aleutian lends le-nds and even coasting for trade along a large body of land to Ibe east blob might be taken from Ibe de rlptlon 10 refer to northern North nmlcaon tbi British Coiumblsn Coui This Is thu broadest aonstruc lion that can be given But when the ndeuoyof tradition to txigterala his Irlc aCblmnl Is I oJnldord cc well In Chinese records as with abbots whIch hare a mytbdlogy the stronger protablllly Is that the 101110 ocean was net the great uorth om water referred to at all but bat U w < s the lea of Okhotsk and the east em n land whloh atretolied 10 Ibo south on lbs other tide of tho broad waters wu not North America but tho amschalian peninsula and Ills nol probable that the tradition mIght be applied wIth still greater accuracy to the Yellow Bia and III Islands and tbe Korean penlnsuli ertalnly there Is I no suggestion at a possible visit to Mexico Farther than this the Chinese writ logs 01 the perIod named were 01 ttlnotlvely Chinese being sign or cturewrltlog and there was no literature seen at would allow the alleged explorer to bios knowl edge or InscrIptIons tuoh as Ben Yup could read today All the ancient sign riling could ts well be called ChI nOlo as tbli possibly could be Ben Yup may have done some gueaslng at Ibe meaning of the Inscriptions bul bit alleged translation of them Is clearly a fraud Those alleged ChIns tombs and monuments to the north ol Man alena Honors not only have been xplrd 10 an extent that shows they have nothing In common with Ibe ChInese hieroglyph but they are fisted In standard works on American arct ro logy at bilng of the tame class a l ether ltsrrtt sit atones found buuUantly In Mexico and Centra America |