origin of the inhabitants of a continent is beyond the limits prescribed to history, and is not, perhaps, even a philosophical question.” We will candidly confess that we could never understand why philosophers have been so predisposed to advocate the theory which peoples America from the Eastern hemisphere. We think the supposition that the Red Man is a primitive type of a family of the human race, originally planted in the Western continent, presents the most natural solution of the problem; and that the researches of physiologists, antiquaries, philologists, and philosophers in general, tend irresistibly to this conclusion. The hypothesis of immigration, however inviting it appear at first to the superficial observer, and however much he may be struck with certain fancied analogies between the architectural or astronomical peculiarities of the American and the Asiatic, is, when followed out, embarrassed with great difficulties, and leads to a course of interminable and unsatisfying speculations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ APPENDIX. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ APPENDIX. A BRIEF MAYA VOCABULARY. Acquaintance, kaholâl. Adder, can, or cam. ——, (harmless,) tzelcam. Afternoon, zezikin. Age (an,) khinkatun. Agony, takyekik, xulikal. Air, l’k-ikal. Alligator, ain, chinan. Alms, ↄayatzil, zitl, matan. Anger, campectzil. Animal, balachi. Ant, zinic, zacal. Apartment, uay, kakal. Appetite, ulolal. Arm and hand, kab. Ascend, nacal. Ashes, ↄitaan. Asthma, coc, coczen, cencoc. Avarice, coczioïl. Ax, baat. Badger, ah, chab. Ball, (dance,) okot. Banner, lacân. Basket, xac. Bat, zoↄ. Bath, katchu. Beam, chalatché. Beans, bouloul. Beautiful man, chichcelem. Bee, yikilkab. Bed, uay, chac, chacché. Bed canopy, yuub. Bed-bug, kulimpic. Bell, (small,) kilzimoc. Bench, xacamache. Bird, chich. Birth, züan. To Bleed, tock. Bleeding, tockil. Blood, kik, olâm. Blemish, yikub. Blind, ekmaï. Blister, ppool, choolax. Body, uinclil, cucut. Bow, pump. Boy, pal. Brain, ↄomel. Bread, uah. To Break, noppah. Breast, tzem. Broom, mizib. Bug, (flying,) pic. Butter, tratz. Buttock, ppucit. Calabash, chu. Caldron, mazcabcun. Calf of the leg, ppuloc. Cancer, ↄunuz, ↄunuztacon. Candle, yibac. Candle, (wax,) yibaccib. Cane, ochux. Cat, mix, miztun. Caterpillar, nok, nokol. Chair, yec. Chamber, unoyna. Chastisement, tzeac. Cheek, ppuc. Chicken, cach Chin, meex. Cholic, kuxnakil, yanakil. Circle, peet, petil. Claws, (beast’s,) mol. Cloak, (sort of,) zuyem. Cloudy, nocoycan. Coal, thabaantchuc, tchuc, cimenchuc. Cochineal, mukaï. Cold weather, ceec. Cold in the head, zizhalil. Cold, (any thing,) ziz. Consumption, tzemztemil, nichoïl. Contagion, bambanicimil. Cook, or cookery, coben. Corn, yxim.