Show buried cities of the west vest every eveny fact recorded by the spanish historians would go to show that there has haa existed in central america a vast empire of great civilization and awl great antiquity it must be so old as to have received the traditions of the creation as they were known to moses and so civilized as to have perpetuated chemin them in writing the factor fact tact of the builders of these trained cities having taught their barbarous conquerors orsa the and the aztecs azteca to adore a nameless and af a formless atless less deity would geem teem to argue an antiquity to which the imagination cah can scarcely rise there is no reason to suppose that phoenicia could have sent forth a colony with ideas of the such as these nor can we ascribe to that commer commet commercial gfall cfall corrupt and idolatrous city of commerce the knowledge of the true account of the creation a and d the event of the deluge which the spanish historians and the early missionaries agree to tor have been old among the traditions of the aborigines of polynesia and among the people of m exi exl cowhen europeans first appeared upon the continent aud aul an among the islands how now these dwellers in central america obtain the knowledge ot of the creation and the deluge fortuitous coincidence Is impossible the fact tact ot of their knowledge rests upon ny which a aich in the case ot of any ordinary historical fact would be held indispensable the zealous catholics who studied the maya language and const constructed meted admirable grammars and vocabularies of t his this and other american tongues 2 read the traditions in th their air an ancient cleno clent books with much wonder but with so little favours abour that they ascribed the knowledge to satan spaniards lay and eclesta looked upon the whole system as a d device vice ot of the devil and a work of magic and d they destroyed priests tem temples plesy and books with indiscriminate hostility it was not likely that they would invent for tor the tha benefit of these miserable heathen a knowledge ot of the revelation made by god to man of the early history of the earth bernal bernai die dle diez andje soils villa gur gui gu i tierre and cogolludo Cogol ludo may be dishonest in their descriptions or in their compilations the ibe books of bark the writ in alpon cotton and the hieroglyphic books seen at zem poala may be fictions or modem forgeries but the i mony that these theme are not so Is at present very st not daspro us proved ed on the other hand there Is nothing impossible in the tiie suggestion vou Von that the race which strewed monuments mom over lands that are now deserts and forests may have been as their traditions assert the grandchildren grand children 0 of noah soab and the contemporaries of the patriarchs the thesus sub eject is at any rate worthy of research re and andyes tet yet how little it has been bren investigated new quarterly review t ii 0 r r it is amusing to observe the numerous guess ings suppositions and wide ot off the markcom mark com 1 ments of professedly e adly learned men concerning ta the e arr american rigan rican continent ancient in inhabitants habitan ts to 0 save the waste of BO so much time and paper with such foolish results we respectfully refer the new quarterly review aud and all people whether learned varned or unlearned to the book of vior mormon m 0 which contains an authentic and correct sketch ie tc h 0 of f the tha condition of the western hemisphere its settlements and inhabitants from near nean the time of 0 f the confusion of languages at the we tower of J babel to about the tho fifth century after the ve resura rans I 1 of tho messiah in addition to filling a wide gap in the worlds history histo and which at pre prea A sent is filled ia in no other ot herway way the book of mor aylor imon mon will inform its readers of the dealings of the tha lord towards americas ancient inhabitants and ana ills his desires and deslys in regard to those now occupying it to together jether I 1 t with much plain do doctrine I 1 cin i ne necessary necessary to bo be und understood e and observed by all who desire salvation in thet them celestial kingdom of the god of abraham isaac and jacob ED or OF THE DESERET NEWS sir it if the accompanying document meets your tour views view 1 I plade placa it at your discretion very respectfully G G S L city march |