AN ARCHÆCOLOGICAL PUZZLE.

Kumara Times, Issue 1165, 23 June 1880, Page 2

AN ARCHÆCOLOGICAL PUZZLE.

The New York Times, after giving what purports to be an account of some discoveries of Egypto-Hebraic remains in Ohio and Missouri, in the form of a rock temple and mausoleum, speculates as follows—lt may be objected that there is no sufficient evidence that the builders of the newly-discovered structures were Jews. Hebrew, as written by the Jews, was certainly for the most part a rectangular language,, though some of the characters close affinity to the corkscrew. ' May there no f , however, have been- other ancient rectangular languages, and may not the inscriptions found in Missouri and Ohio prove to be Gentile inscriptions 1 There is a certain plausibility in this suggestion, but the noses of the Ohio mummies cannot thus be explained away. Unless the occupants of the Ohio tombs were in unlawful possession of noses originally belonging to Jews, they were undoubtedly of the Jewjah race, and lived at a period when the national nose was' in its ‘very' prims. There are two theories, either'of which will explain the mystery of these

Egypto-Hobraic-Americans, We may suppose that, during the captivity of ■ .the Jew's in Egypt, a colony of Egyp- '>£^ emi 8 rated *° America on hoard a psft of Egyptian granite, carrying with them a quantity of Jewish slaves. On arriving in Missouri, by way of Now Orleans and the Mississipi River, they stopped long enough to make the slaves construct a rock temple and ornament it with pieces of granite from the raft. Having sacrificed to a few select gods, they then pursued their journey to Ohio, NvheTe the raft was taken to pieces &nd used in building a mausoleum. When the mausoleum was finished, the Jewish slaves, coveting its splen'dour, killed the Egyptians, wrapped themselves in the mummy clothes of their masters, and biiried themselves in the black granite tomb. The other theory is that the Western newspapers, . in which the reports of these discoveries are printed, take their code of morals from the Rev. Dr. Talmage.