Considerable thought led to some conclusions which were taken as guides in investigation. Professor Smyth was convinced that the mass held treasures of knowledge — not of a lost civilization, but laid up under the dictation ofa divine power. For, if such treasures did exist (such seems the running of his thought), it was less marvelous to judge that they were thus given, than that they be longed to that of which every possible vestige but this one had vanished off the face of the earth.