al solution can only be obtained at
some future day by the joint cooeperation of Americanists and Orientalists.
On the other hand certain incontrovertible facts which throw light upon
the question of prehistoric contact have been coming under my observation
during my prolonged course of study and the presentation of these may
advance knowledge by acting as a stimulus to discussion, inquiry and
research by learned specialists.

For ready reference I submit the following tabulated record of the widely
sundered countries in which are found, applied to the governmental scheme,
the same cosmical divisions, respectively consisting of four, seven and
thirteen parts, the group being invariably associated with the idea of an
all-embracing One, constituting the Four in One, Seven in One and Thirteen
in One. It is superfluous to add that, in each country enumerated, the
existence of more or less distinct traces of an ancient pole-star worship
and the cult of the sacred Middle, the Above and Below and Four Quarters,
_i. e._, the four, seven and thirteen directions in space, have been
recorded in the preceding pages. Important additional facts, acquired by
reference to Hewitt's Ruling Races of Prehistoric Times, to which my
attention was directed by Mr. Stansbury Hagar, and to other valuable
works, will be found included in the following summary.

It would be of utmost assistance to me in my future researches and I would
regard it as a personal favor if specialists would draw my attention to
any deficiencies they may detect, and inform me of the latest results of
their individual investigations bearing upon the subjects under
consideration.

INDIA.

Seven zones, seven directions in space, seven sages.

"The conception of the confederated kingdom formed of six dependent and
allied states surrounding the seventh ruling state in the centre."... "It
is this conception which is worked out in the six kingdoms surrounding the
central kingdom of Jambudvipa, into which they divided India. This form of
kingdom still survives in those which form the tributary states of Chota
Nagpore, for in all of these the central province is ruled by the king and
those surrounding it by his subordinate chiefs ..."(136) (Hewitt, Ruling
Races of Prehistoric Times, p. 256).

Four lakes, four rivers, four cosmical divisions, four guardians, p. 320.

"In the Gond 'Song of Lingal,' it is related how, Lingal, having been
slain by the confederacy [of six king