ORIGIN OF THE



" The same succession of stony strat



a,



says



a learned



"' is found



old world.
petrified sea
The fossil
equinoctial .
do not exist
low plains, I



  At
shells
bones
reo'ionw
b
; and
but in



no
a h
are
of
sof
theE
the



less in the new
eight superior
found on the sun
elephants, are
a continent wher
,e bones are not



coldest



t and nio



of the Cordilleras' There, as well a
aenerations of animals long extinet, h
which now exist on the surface of thi
no reason to believe, because Anei
recently discovered, that, therefore
recently peopled. The comparath
population is no proof to the contrar3
central Asia are as thinly peopled as
New Mexico and ParagLuay. The ft
blem of the first population of most
as difficult to solve as that of Americi
plain, because the first populration
generally farbeyond the period of



world than in the
to Mou0nt Blanc
imit of the Andes.



spread
fe uvlnd
found



st elevatE
s in the
Lave prec
e earth.
rica has
7 it has
Te thinn
r, for the
the sav
tct is, the



coI
a.
0
itk
  I1



IntriE
Thi
f a
; his
10 -



over the
* eleph ants
merely in
Ad regions
old world,
eded those
There is
been but
been but
ess of its
regions of
annalhs of



,it the pro-



is, ISne
e reaso
countrf
tory.



problem, therefore, ot the population ot the Ile'
is no more within the province of history, than q
on the origin of plants and animals are in that o
science."
  It has been frequently proved beyond the pi
of a doubt, that the remains of a more polis]
cultivated people than the present red Indians (
America do still exist in different parts of the
continent. In the absence of these remains the
of civilization which are every year discovered
Lake Ontarioand the Gulf of Mexico, and even
the north-west should sufficiently prove the fa
Barton, in his Observations on some Parts of
History, part I., has collected the scattered
Kalm, Carver, and others, and has added a plai
gular work, which had been discovered on the
the Muskingum, near its junction with the Ohio.



w WI



arly
n is
Y is
The
Drld,



[uestions
if natural



ossibility
Lied and
)f North



western
vestiges
between
towards
et., Mr.
Na tura
hints of
i of a re-
banks of
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