To the Editor of the "Norta-Cuina Datty News."
Sin,—With reference to "Zadoc's" letter I think it should be mentioned (1) that Lo Plongeon's works are utterly devoid of any critical sense and (2) that both Lo Plongeon and Mr. Fong base their connexions of Toltce with Egyptian and Chinese respectively on a few simple characters which would naturally occur in all pictorial systems of writing. Lo Plongeon's chronology is quite baseless and the definite proofs of the existence of Atlantis are still to find. am, ete, Shanghai, Sept. 17.
To the Editor of the "Norra-Cama Dairy News."
Sin,—Dr. Chatley makes two as-sections which have no bearing whatever on the subject of my last letter. I would like to say in answer that Lo Plongeon bases his theory of the possible connexion of ancient Central American eivilization with that of Egypt on a good deal more than a few written characters, as his writings will show; his chronology certainly ix
of most archieologists—we can acopen to the same criticism as that cept it or not.
ft was De Guignes who endeavoured to prove the Chinese people to be of Egyptian origin by the similarity of certain written syuibols common to both nations; but Mr. Fong boldly declares to the world that certain carvings on the Toltee pyramid in Teotihuacan are Chinese characters. My contention is that Mr. Fong might just as well declare similar carve ings on the pyramid of Cheops, or on the Rosetta stone, to be Chinese characters because they happen to have the same figures in China. The question which forms the subject of my letter, quite apart from Plongeon or "De Guignes, is whether Mr. Fong is right or not when he says he has "absolutely identified" the Toltec Carvings.
I think it will be conceded that there is no valid proof to show that Atlantis never existed. That proof of the existence of Atlantis has yet to be found, we all know; yet Iam not alone in believing that were such proof forthcoming it would afford an explanation to several world mysteries about which there is still so much groping in the dark.
I am, ete., Zavoc.
Shanghai, Sept, 20.
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