America Discovered by the Welsh in 1170 A.D.

oblem. That it will always remain so does not appear from new proofs which are being adduced to support favor

ut became changed in color by the use of red roots and the bleachings of the sun; and of these we

elites, Canaanites, Assyrians, Ph?nicians, Persia

s maintained, of the American aborigines, who are made the

gines are the descendants of

of an imperfect state of knowledge. The skeptical view would not be accepted, inasmuch as it broke the

apheth. Heathen altars and the mounds of early Scripture are taken as the original types of the earthen monumental remains of America. At the dispersion on the plains of Shinar, and after the confusion of tongues, "the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upo

ime, more of its mythical character, and to be brought to the plane of a historic fact. It certainly cannot be treated as a pure fiction. The story that Solon brought from Egypt to Gree

The remnants of Cape Verd and Ascension Islands, and the numerous rock-formations and sand-banks surveyed with great accuracy by Bauche, have been submitted in its favor. Traditions exist that a people on the Mediterranean, sailing through the Straits of Gibraltar, the ancient Calpe, were driven westward by a storm, and were heard of no more. It is thought they reached the American coast. Some time since, at a meeting of the Mexican Geographical Society, it was stated that some brass tablets had been discovered in the no

and unknown characters; and beneath this stone was a vault made of masonry, in which were deposited two ancient swords, a helmet, and a shield. The stone

inion of Alexan

f Macedon, in

d, Ptol

e helmet had on it fine sculptured work, representing Achilles dragging the corpse of Hector

which he thinks that both the Antilles an

rs of an interview between Midas, King of Phrygia, and Silenus, in which the latter reported the

ersal Compassion), a Chinese Buddhist priest, returned to Singan, the capital of China, and declared that he had been to Tahan (Kamtschatka), and from thence on to a country about twenty thousand li (short Chinese miles), or abou

known of the American aborigines. Oriental scholars, like Klaproth and Bretschneider, have handled these pretensions with keen severity; while there have not been

that continent, many centuries before the time of Columbus. We should bear in mind that Ireland was colonized by the Ph?nicians. An Irish saint, named Vigile, who lived in the eighth century, was accused to Pope Zachary of having taught heresies on

a Basque shallop, with mast and sail, an iron grapple, and a kettle; that they came aboard boldly, one of them being appareled with a waistcoat and breech

venturous fishermen, were accustomed to visit the American coast fro

y settlements on the American Continent, are no

ter. Their very necessities made them navigators. They conducted large fisheries. The Ph?nicians and Greeks traded with them in tin and lead, and in the Baltic for amber. Their commercial relations were extensive before Julius C?sar reached the island. He came to atta

mpass (which, by the way, is uncertain), they studied the elements of nature,-the winds, currents, sun, and stars. Modern sailors have the advantage of accurate instrume

latter. The majestic Gulf Stream sweeps around from Newfoundland till it almost crosses the Atlantic near the British Island. That is why the