BOOK SECOND.

DISCOVERY OF AMERICA BEFORE COLUMBUS.

Positions on the map of Iceland, Greenland, and
Massachusetts,

Early traditions of Western Europe relative to
lands in the West,

Seven years voyage of St. Brenda,

Voyages of the Welsh chief Gavran,

Voyage of Madoc to the Missouri,

Discovery of Iceland by Pirates and its settlement
Discovery and settlement of Greenland,

Discovery of Massachusetts by Lief under the name
of Vinland,

Columbus visits Iceland,

Columbus not a discover but far greater a reviver of truth,

Concluding testimony,

THE AZTEC CITY OF SUMAI.

INTRODUCTION.

The late remarkable expedition of Colonel Doniphan through the Mexican country has been narrated with considerable detail in the New Orleans National newspaper, and from it, been extensively copied and circulated by the press of the United States. Though most of the facts are highly exciting and interesting, yet there is one among them that will survive the remembrance of the others, and be more likely to perpetuate the memory of that arduous undertaking than even the object for which it was despatched. We allude to the discovery of that long sought and anxiously waited for event,-an Aztec city and genuine Mexican inhabitants. The National gives the following story among its sketches, under the heading of

EXTRAORDINARY INLAND CITY.

About the time Colonel Doniphan made his trea ty with the Navajos, a division, of his command was entirely out of provisions, but these were liberally supplied with the present necessities, by the