SUPPOSED WELCH INDIANS. JgJ 



tinned to rife till it reached the temperature of 40°, when vt 

 became flationary : the thermometer at the furface rofe more 

 (lowly, but did not flop till it acquired the temperature of the 

 room (52°)* . vv 



Dr. Hope, to render this point ftill clearer, expofed water 

 at 52° to the air of a room 32° ; the refult correfponded per- 

 fectly with the former experiment. 



If you fee no objection to the publication of this letter, by 

 inferring it in your Journal, you will oblige *', 



Sir, your's, 



Edinburgh, OB. 10, ISO 



T. I. B. 



VIIL 



Obfirvatiuno and Conjectures relative to the fuppofed Welch 

 Jndians in the wejltrn Parts of North America. Republ/Jlted 

 from the " Kentucky Palladium," with additional Remarks 

 and Conjectures, by the Editor of thC Philadelphia Medical 



■and Phj/jlcal Journal f ,, 



s:x, 



i%IO circumfiance relating to the biitory of the Wefterri Traditional ac- 

 Countrv, probably has excited, at different times, hitte>gtil ■^ fAmeri« 

 neral attention and anxious curiofity than the opinion, that fuppofed to have 

 a nation of white men, fpeaking tlvc Welch language, reside ^ n s ated from 

 high up on the Mifotiri. B< tome the idea is: treated as no- 

 thing but the fuggeiiion of bftW i liJJWftiiM and eafy credulity ; 

 vv h i 1 it others regard it as a facl fully authenticated by Indian 

 teitimony and the report of various travellers worthy of credit. 



The fad is accounted for, ihev fay, b) recurring to a palfage 

 in the hiftory of Great Britain, whieh relates, that feveral 

 years after the difcovery of America by Chriliopher Columbus, 

 a certain Welch prince embarked from his native country 

 with a large party of emigrants; that after forne time, a vefTel 



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* A fuller recount of the late experiments of Dr. Hope witt'toe 

 ififerted when the Edinburgh Tranfa&ions appear. 



j- Extraaed from that Work, Vol. II. Part I. 



or 



