3. On the Antiquity of Intellectual Man: from a Practical and Astronomical point of view

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The author of this paper confined himself entirely to the use of contemporary data; and amongst these, the only kinds found available for the very earliest ages, were buildings of one kind or another.

Examining these again, after their first approximate arrangement in chronological relative order by well-known archæologists, it was discovered that there resided a peculiar astronomical opposition between the chief structures in the valley of the Euphrates and those in the valley of the Nile.