The account of the fratricide in Genesis, in the Ramayana, or in the papyri of Egypt, is nothing more or less, with a slight variance, than the story of the feuds of king Can's children. This story, treasured by the priests of Egypt and India, consigned in their sacred books and poems, has been handed down to us among the primitive traditions of mankind. Nowhere, except in Mayax, do we find it as forming part of the history of the nation. Nowhere, except in Mayax, do we find the portraits of the actors in the tragedy. There, we not only see their portraits carved in bas-reliefs, on stone or wood, or their marble statues in the round, or represented in the mural paintings that adorn the walls of the funereal chamber built to the memory of the victim, but we discover the ornaments they wore, the weapons they used, nay, more, their mortal remains. The following is the certificate of Charles O. Thompson, Principal and Professor of Chemistry at the Worcester Free Institute, who made the chemical analysis of part of the cremated remains found in the stone urn that was near the chest of the statue that occupied the centre of the mausoleum raised to the memory of the famous warrior Coh, twenty feet below the upper plane of the monument. WORCESTER, Mass., Sept. 25, 1880. "Stephen Salisbury, Jr., Esq., submits an unknown solid for qualitative examination. [Illustration] "Under microscope it presents a certain compactness and horny aspect characteristic of animal matter which has been charred in a close vessel, it loses 9 per cent. when dried at 100° and 9 per cent. more by combustion. After calcination, a dross and residue remains which contains 3 per cent. fenic oxide, a little alumina and much silica. Warm water exposed to action of residue shows traces of potash and soda. "These results are consistent with the theory that the mass was once part of a human body which has been burned with some fuel." "CHARLES O. THOMPSON." There is a fact certainly worthy of notice, and this is that the names of the personages mentioned in the various accounts of the fratricide are precisely identical, or are words having the same signification. May not that be regarded as unimpeachable proof that they all refer to the same event? No one who has any knowledge of philology will ever deny that A-bel—A-bal—Bal-_i_—_Balam_ are identical words. A, contraction of _Ah_, is the Maya masculine article, _the_. _Bal_ is the radical of Bal_am_. Balam is for the superstitious aborigines, even to-day, the _Yumil Kaax_—the "Lord of the fields" the "_Leopard_" which they also call _Coh_—the totem of the victim of Aac is the leopard—and it is so represented in the bas-reliefs and sculptures. In Egypt, the spotted skin of the leopard, usually without the head, but sometimes with it, was always suspended near the images and statues of Osiris. The skin of a leopard was worn as a mantle over the ceremonial dress of his priests. [Illustration]