RUINS IN CENTRAL AMERICA.

ANCIENT MONUMENT AT COPAN.

Mr. Stephens's new work, intitled " Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan."

[From an American Paper.]

We have no hesitation in saying that this is decidedly the most interesting work that has issued from the American press during the present season.

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We publish the foregoing for the purpose of giving our readers some ideas of the antiquities of the Nephites—of their ancient cities, temples, monuments, towers, fortifications, and inscriptions now in ruin amid the solitude of an almost impenetrable forest; but fourteen hundred years since, in the days of Mormon, they were the abodes of thousands and millions of human beings, and the centre of civil and military operations unsurpassed in any age or country.

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—I say it is remarkable that Mr. Smith, in translating the Book of Mormon from 1827 to 1830, should mention the names and circum-stances of those towns and fortifications in this very section of country, where a Mr Stephens, ten years afterwards, penetrated a dense forest, till then unexplored by modern travellers, and actually fines the ruins of those very cities mentioned by Mormon.