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On Freemasonry.
record , that more than half a century ago , two ancient wells were discovered in North America , loaded round with , brick . It is clear , therefore , from this incident , that , as bricks were unknown to the first inhabitants of whom we possess any knowledge , they must have been used by a people antecedent to themwith whom arts and civilization had been cultivated
, with considerable success . And this primitive people , whoever they mi ght be , were acquainted with the principles of geometry , because the wells were walled in a perfect circle . Another instance which equally elucidates this conclusion may be deduced from a recent number of the Constitutionmd ; which records that on the coast of Peru , in the environs of
Garvcy , province of Truxillo , an ancient buried city of considerable extent has been recently discovered , by the captain of an American vessel , named llay . Following the course of some excavations which he made , he found the walls of the edifices still standing , and many of them in a complete state of preservation . He infers from the number and extent
of them , that the population of the city could not have been less than 8 , 000 souls . Great numbers of skeletons and mummies , in a perfect state of preservation , were found among
the private and sacred edifices , and a great number of domestic utensils , articles of furniture , coins , and curious antiquities . The earthquake , by which it would appear the city was engulfed , appears to have surprised the inhabitants like those of Pompeii , in the midst of their daily avocations , and many of them were singularly preserved , by the
exclusion of atmospheric air in the precise action or employment of the moment when overwhelmed . One man , standing up as if in the act of escaping , was dressed in a lig ht robe , in the folds of which coins were found , which have been sent to the scientific institution of Lima for investigation . A female was also found sitting in a chair before a loom , which
contained an unfinished p iece of cotton-stuff , which she was in the act of weaving . The cotton-stuff ( which is of a gaudy pattern , but very neatly fabricated ) , is about eig ht inches in diameter , and appears to have been only half completed . A great number of antiquities and curiosities found in this American Ilercuianeum grave , have been sent to the museum
of Lima . Here the scientific efforts of our ancient Brethren have been brought to lig ht in those regions where Operative Masonry would be least expected to exist . And this constitutes a collateral , but most convincing proof , corroborated VOL . VI . T
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry.
record , that more than half a century ago , two ancient wells were discovered in North America , loaded round with , brick . It is clear , therefore , from this incident , that , as bricks were unknown to the first inhabitants of whom we possess any knowledge , they must have been used by a people antecedent to themwith whom arts and civilization had been cultivated
, with considerable success . And this primitive people , whoever they mi ght be , were acquainted with the principles of geometry , because the wells were walled in a perfect circle . Another instance which equally elucidates this conclusion may be deduced from a recent number of the Constitutionmd ; which records that on the coast of Peru , in the environs of
Garvcy , province of Truxillo , an ancient buried city of considerable extent has been recently discovered , by the captain of an American vessel , named llay . Following the course of some excavations which he made , he found the walls of the edifices still standing , and many of them in a complete state of preservation . He infers from the number and extent
of them , that the population of the city could not have been less than 8 , 000 souls . Great numbers of skeletons and mummies , in a perfect state of preservation , were found among
the private and sacred edifices , and a great number of domestic utensils , articles of furniture , coins , and curious antiquities . The earthquake , by which it would appear the city was engulfed , appears to have surprised the inhabitants like those of Pompeii , in the midst of their daily avocations , and many of them were singularly preserved , by the
exclusion of atmospheric air in the precise action or employment of the moment when overwhelmed . One man , standing up as if in the act of escaping , was dressed in a lig ht robe , in the folds of which coins were found , which have been sent to the scientific institution of Lima for investigation . A female was also found sitting in a chair before a loom , which
contained an unfinished p iece of cotton-stuff , which she was in the act of weaving . The cotton-stuff ( which is of a gaudy pattern , but very neatly fabricated ) , is about eig ht inches in diameter , and appears to have been only half completed . A great number of antiquities and curiosities found in this American Ilercuianeum grave , have been sent to the museum
of Lima . Here the scientific efforts of our ancient Brethren have been brought to lig ht in those regions where Operative Masonry would be least expected to exist . And this constitutes a collateral , but most convincing proof , corroborated VOL . VI . T