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321 Moabites & Midianites, as well as in Indra. Being found in America, it affords an incontrovertible & prostrating evidence of the connexions which once existed between the old & new world. Amongst the Egyptians, Greeks, & Hebrews, the representation of the Phallus was of a large size & was sometimes of gold and silver & sometimes of stone. Capt. Cook saw traces of it in the Sandwich Islands, where was left the custom of erecting mounds & the art of making feathered mantles, which emigration left there in the cover of its progress to America. We can go upon the trace of the phallus from the Tennessee to the Pacific islands, to India & to Egypt. In speaking of the Sandwich Islands, the author of Cook's voyage says, there are many idols, one of them the black figure of a man resting upon his toes & prayers, & that the islanders give place in their houses to many ludicrous & obscene idols, like the Priapus of the ancients. (1 Herodotus 335. 336, 337, 338, 341. 1 Diodones Liculus 29; 2 Dubois 200, 208, 282. Bacchus seems to have been the generative god of the Greeks & Venus the generation goddess for the rites of both were celebrated with all fists of obscenity. 1 Rollin 48. Elrch: Am a 241. The like ceremonies