When, following the course of the constellations, those immovably and perpetually fastened upon America are reached, it will appear that, while all that is sublime in the historic past centres upon Egypt, all that is sublime in the prehistoric past centres upon America; and as the curtain which has hitherto concealed the prehistoric connection between the peoples of ancient Egypt and of America, is lifted, it will be seen that, the people of the Eagle on the Nile being descended from the original people of the Eagle on this Continent, the twain are one, and that prehistoric America was the original Egypt or Eagleland, prior to the mighty dispersion in the days of Peleg, when the earth was divided and the great globe itself was nearly rent asunder.