NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.



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of Amp in language and dress. "Eadem lingua," he says,
fere utebantur atque eodem modo fere vestiti, quamobren&
dubitari non potest quin propinquitatibus aJJinitatibusque
tonjuncti sint."  From this assertion it would appear,
that Chiaratesta feels convinced of the sameness of
people, as he observed themi use almost the same lan-
guage, and dress almost in the same manner. These
are his very words, and he hesitates not a moment to
conclude the Asiatic origin of the North American In-
dians, especially of those whom he met on crossing the
straits of Beering.
  We are assured by all those travellers who made any



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inquiries after the nature and
guages or dialects spoken in the
of Asia, that they partake, in a
idiom of American languages.
cidence in the formation of verl
guage is noticed by Abernethy
more clearly or more decidedly
dian and Asiatic dialects than tl
a deer and to kill a bear is ex
with two different verbs. To



just in the same manner as the An:
is likewise expressed by twvo did
cumstance alone is sufficient to prc
  We shall now offer the reader
the Asiatic and Indian languages,
Barton, Abernethy, and Santini,
languages is evident at first sight.



construction of the lan-
3 regions of the north-east
n eminent degree, of the
  A most singular coin-
)s in the Tongusian lan-
. Nothing can indicate
the connexion of the In-



his circumstance.



To kill



pressed by the Tongusi
eat flesh and to eat fish.



ierican languages vary,
brent verbs. This cire
we their similarity.
a comparative table of



taken chiefly from Dr.
where the identity of



*Chiaratesta, De terra incognita, p. 96.



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