repositories of books and art. We long again to saunter through the Jardin d'Hiver, or the concerts of the " Conservatoire," or to hear the rich tones of Alboni at Her Majesty's, in London; to see Marie Taglioni, or Carlotta Grisi starring it in the "Lost Pleiad," or Caroline Rosati in "La Prima Ballerina," and to hear the soft tenore of Mario or Moriani, or rich bass of Lablache and Tamburini. Paris, London, those homes of science, where you can travel in your arm-chair, in your Assyrian museums and Asiatic societies, in your saloons of savans;—why linger in dusty old Egypt longer?

For the mounds and records of our own land, for Uxmal, and Chiapas, and Yucatan, for California and its progressing civilization, which he who first struck his spade in the Sacramento so little foresaw; for proofs of Scripture among the Mexicans, the Peruvians, for the luxuriant scenery of the Amazon, and all that Humboldt has laid open in North and South America: for America! let us leave the time-honored land with thankfulness for the truths that she has taught us. I bade farewell to Egypt. In a few days we made the coast of Candia or Crete, and saw the green mountain where Jupiter was fabled to have been born. One bright morning we stood under clear Mount Etna, a familiar mountain which I had scanned on Sicilian ground before. Messina was underneath, the scene of Neapolitan massacres. A few days brought us to Spezzia in Italy. Quarantine over, to Marseilles, Avignon, Lyons, Paris, Old Egypt's relics there, juggling zodiacs, dusty tomes in her Bibliotheque—London and her museums I faithfully explored; but this time with pleasure, for Egypt had become part only of a grand whole of faith.

It was a bright Sunday morning in August, that I sallied from my hotel in Broadway, and crowds of well-dressed men and women thronged the thoroughfares of this busy, Christian city. Through the aisles of Trinity the organ was pealing, and voices went up chanting praises to Heaven. As I stepped in, the lesson was reading in Deuteronomy, chapter iv, and of parts of it, the words seemed meant for me. "But the Lord -hath taken you and brought you even out of Egypt. If from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and all thy soul," &c. Yes, what is conviction of truth, from science, from history, from Scripture, if we follow not in our lives the commandments of God, and the teaching and example of our Divine Master?

Reader, my wanderings among ruins will occupy you no longer, unless Nineveh, Babylon, Persepolis, Chiapas, Yucatan, or Mexico should entice me to their palaces, sepulchres and mounds.

APPENDIX.

A.

Astronomical Monuments in Egypt.

There were at Esne, Dendera, Hermonthis, tombs of the kings. Two were at Dendera, at the portico of the great temple; two at Esne. The four contained the twelve zodiacal constellations, of which the signs succeeded according to modern zodiacal interpretations.

Twelve constellations are placed upon a plane which stretches two parallel ways, forming a spiral curve or ellipsis, which you see in the zodiac at Dendera, and which is now in the royal library at Paris. Virgo or the Virgin is the first in that of Esne. Leo first in that of Paris. After Desraix brought to France the " discovery," they found an astronomical phenomenon ; the first sign of each zodiac is that of the solstice at the time when the two temples were constructed. The temple of Dendera, when the two solstices are at the sign of the Lion, according to this rule, dates 4000 years before our epoch, and that of Esne 7000 years, having the sign of the Virgin. The zodiacs have in their order a date from 5000 to 10,000 years, and yet the temples which contained these pictures are nearly the most modern in Egypt. This was the report to Napoleon, by his librarian; Dupuis's opinion is given.

Laborde admitted that the first signs were those of the zodiacs; effaced the Virgin at Esne; placed the solstices at the left of the Lion; gave 3500 years to Esne, and 2000 less to Dendera. Laborde considered the temples at Esne and Dendera, as the memorials of the successes of Alexander. See Fourier, " ressume litteraire de ses recherches surles antiquities astronomiques de 1'Egypt." Fourier says the Egyptian sphere carries us back to the twenty-fifth century before the Christian Era. At this time, observations made known the first elements of Astronomy. The epoch of the restitution,* he then dilates upon. Here is the origin of their laws and most ancient rites.

Recherches sur les sciences et le government de I'Egypt.—Fourier, in his description of Egypt, says an epoch which differs little from two thousand years has preceded the construction of the temple of Dendera, and that is posterior to that of Latopolis or Esne. These temples belong then (as the epoch of the zodiacal institution 2500 years, B. c.) to the civil history of Egypt. The monarchy then existed in all its forms, obeying wise and constant laws. Experience had fixed the principles of government and cultivated arts from time immemorial. They had produced the monuments of Esne, and reproduced them in the temple of Isis, at Dendera. Fourier concluded, therefore, that at the twenty-fifth century before the Christian era, the Egyptian monarchy was flourishing by knowledge of laws, manners, and arts, and reasoning that the sphere and 'calendar of two zodiacs was instituted, and therefore, at the twentyfirst century, B. c., the temple of Esne and its zodiacs was constructed, that Dendera was built after this epoch. Hence, if these temples, which were the most modern in Egypt, were built 2100 B. c., to what a distance back could the dates of such buildings as Karnac and Thebes be carried. The French fashionable infidelity was on the tiptoe of delight. Biot, the astronomer, thought he could recognize astronomical features still more strange in the zodiac. The French philosophers already began to talk of 10,000, 20,000 years for Egypt's history, and the materialist to claim that the earth always existed. The zodiac was brought to Paris. Geologists, deists, atheists, all were delighted, and Scripture revelation they supposed had received its death blow.

Alas !" the tongue of a dog was made medicinal to a sickly Lazarus," and this lie in the same way proved useful to diseased truth. The discovery of the Rosetta Stone and the hieroglyphic alphabet by

* See Nolan's remarks upon the restitution in Egyptian Chronology.

Champollion, in Sept., 1822, lightened all doubts. The temples of Dendera and Esne were shown to have been built in the Roman age of Egypt, and they bear the names of the emperors, Hadrian and Antoninus. "Autocrator" had been cut off from the zodiacs when brought to Paris. On Esne, the names of Claudius, Titus, Domitian, Trajan, Antoninus, and Septimus Severus, were found, thus proving that it was built in the first century before Christ, and yet Fourier claimed 2000 years. At Dendera, even in the most ancient Roman part, you find the name of the last Cleopatra, and a list of the sovereigns who after her had assembled to its construction, viz.: Augustus, Tiberius, Caius, Claudius, Nero. Besides the names which were found sculptured upon them according to the design published by the French Commissioner of Egypt, was an imperial Roman title of Claudius and Nero.*

Having obtained a familiarity from Champollion's Grammaire and Dictionaire, and Wilkinson, with the signs and records I should find there, I saw the names clearly in an instant of these Roman Emperors. But the impression I received was so lively from the first glance at the temples of botli Dendera and Esne that they were Roman, that I think any classical schoolboy would recognize the same. I felt how paltry were the efforts of the French infidels, how malicious their attempts by sucli scientific jugglery to cast a doubt upon the word of God. True science and true philosophy will only find in the glorious works of the Almighty, and true historical records of the race, the glorious confirmation of his word. All that these men have done, and all that kindred Chronologists or Geologists can do, has only brought and will continue to bring greater truths to light. By the persevering efforts of the French skeptics we gained the farther knowledge of the hieroglyphics which Champollion gave us, and the Egyptian scholars of the day, who detract in any manner from the completeness of Scripture, only awaken a spirit that leads to farther Scripture proof and continued confirmation.

* For a conclusion of the history of this matter, see Champollion Figeac, Fourier, and Napoleon, and Chronology.