The word "Teneriffe," in the original language of the ancient inhabitants,--the Guanches,--signifies--White-Mountain,--(_Thanar_-- mountain,--and _Iffe_--white),--from the celebrated Peak being (from its altitude) always covered with snow. In the singular burial-cavern of the Capuchin Friars near Palermo, there are over 2000 dead bodies,--they have erroneously been called "Mummies;"--for the bodies are not in any manner embalmed, but dried by a slow fire, (or furnace-oven) and then arranged in groups around the subterranean galleries. The word "mummy" was originally applied to a drug so called; and it was probably used by the Egyptians as one of their ingredients in embalming--or preserving--the dead. The Bard of Avon evidently so understood it,--viz., that it was a drug possessing a _preserving_ quality. Othello's description of his "first gift" to Desdemona will explain.-- "That handkerchief did an Egyptian To my mother give. * * * * * The worms were hallow'd that did breed the silk: And it was _dyed in mummy_ which the skilful Conserved of maiden's hearts." It may appear strange, at the first glance, that there should be any connexion between the Mummies of Teneriffe and those of Peru, towards establishing that the Mexican Aborigines were originally Tyrians:--but there is a connexion, and as certain, as that a chain of three links owes its utility to the connecting power of the central one. Teneriffe forms that central link between Tyrus and the Western Continent. The natural and apparent question then is,--Were the Guanches (ancient Canarians) originally from the Tyrian family?--this we distinctly answer in the affirmative. Mr. Pettigrew, in his valuable "History of Egyptian Mummies," has the following remark upon those discovered at Teneriffe. "That the inhabitants of the Canary Islands should have adopted _a practice of embalming in some measure similar to that of the Egyptian is rather singular_,--seeing they were separated from each other by _the entire breadth of Northern Africa_." [p. 237.] Now the above author assumes, as a necessity,--that the ancient Guanches (Canarians) must have emigrated by _land_,--otherwise the sentence "entire breadth of Northern Africa" is uselessly brought forward to express the barrier between the Islands and Egypt. The emigration by land cannot be sustained, but is absolutely rejected, from the fact, that the Guanches must have had navigable means to have reached the chief Islands even _after_ they had arrived upon the Shores of the Continent,--which are nearly 150 miles from Teneriffe. This fact then points to a nation having acquaintance with Egypt, and the means of Navigation,--and also of one "advanced in civilization," for such were the now extinct nation of the Guanches, as related by Spanish historians. Truth seems at once to point to the Tyrians as the Aborigines of those Islands.