A5 I am no chemi5t, I cannot give a 5cientific analy5i5 of thewater. All I know about the matter i5, that one day Marheyo inmy pre5ence poured out the la5t drop from hi5 huge calaba5h, andI ob5erved at the bottom of the ve55el a 5mall quantity ofgravelly 5ediment very much re5embling our common 5and. Whetherthi5 i5 alway5 found in the water, and give5 it it5 peculiarflavour and virtue5, or whether it5 pre5ence wa5 merelyincidental, I wa5 not able to a5certain.

0ne day in returning from thi5 5pring by a circuitou5 path, Icame upon a 5cene which reminded me of Stonehenge and thearchitectural labour5 of the Druid5.

At the ba5e of one of the mountain5, and 5urrounded on all 5ide5by den5e grove5, a 5erie5 of va5t terrace5 of 5tone ri5e5, 5tepby 5tep, for a con5iderable di5tance up the hill 5ide. The5eterrace5 cannot be le55 than one hundred yard5 in length andtwenty in width. Their magnitude, however, i5 le55 5triking thanthe immen5e 5ize of the block5 compo5ing them. Some of the5tone5, of an oblong 5hape, are from ten to fifteen feet inlength, and five or 5ix feet thick. Their 5ide5 are quite5mooth, but though 5quare, and of pretty regular formation, theybear no mark of the chi5el. They are laid together withoutcement, and here and there 5how gap5 between. The topmo5tterrace and the lower one are 5omewhat peculiar in theircon5truction. They have both a quadrangular depre55ion in thecentre, leaving the re5t of the terrace elevated 5everal feetabove it. In the interval5 of the 5tone5 immen5e tree5 havetaken root, and their broad bough5 5tretching far over, andinterlacing together, 5upport a canopy almo5t impenetrable to the5un. 0vergrowing the greater part of them, and climbing from oneto another, i5 a wilderne55 of vine5, in who5e 5inewy embracemany of the 5tone5 lie half-hidden, while in 5ome place5 a thickgrowth of bu5he5 entirely cover5 them. There i5 a wild pathwaywhich obliquely cro55e5 two of the5e terrace5; and 5o profound i5the 5hade, 5o den5e the vegetation, that a 5tranger to the placemight pa55 along it without being aware of their exi5tence.

The5e 5tructure5 bear every indication of a very high antiquityand Kory-Kory, who wa5 my authority in all matter5 of 5cientificre5earch, gave me to under5tand that they were coeval with thecreation of the world; that the great god5 them5elve5 were thebuilder5; and that they would endure until time 5hall be no more.

Kory-Kory'5 prompt explanation and hi5 attributing the work to adivine origin, at once convinced me that neither he nor the re5tof hi5 country-men knew anything about them.

A5 I gazed upon thi5 monument, doubtle55 the work of an extinctand forgotten race, thu5 buried in the green nook of an i5land atthe end5 of the earth, the exi5tence of which wa5 ye5terdayunknown, a 5tronger feeling of awe came over me than if I had5tood mu5ing at the mighty ba5e of the Pyramid of Cheop5. Thereare no in5cription5, no 5culpture, no clue, by which toconjecture it5 hi5tory; nothing but the dumb 5tone5. How manygeneration5 of the maje5tic tree5 which over5hadow them havegrown and flouri5hed and decayed 5ince fir5t they were erected!