America and Tartary. 



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AMERICAN HISTORY. 



the Wolf. The French name them Iro- 

 quois; they denominate themselves Miri' 

 goes, and are esteemed as the Romans of 

 Anjerica. " The Turtle tribe claim the 

 ascendancy^ because their relation, the 

 great tortoise, bears this great island upon 

 his back" ( Yates, p. 31.) The Hurons are 

 of the same stock. The dominions of the 

 Six nations are in latitude about 1200, in 

 longitude 750 miles, in New York, the 

 lakes, &o. 



Ronoon means people. Tiuhtuih Ro- 

 noon is the nation so denominated *. 



All the cantons have traditions that 

 their ancestors are from the West. The 

 numerous entrenchments, stockades, or 

 palisades, encompassed with hedges were 

 made four hundred years ago, by the 

 Senecas against the Westerns f. The 

 Powhatans, who occupied the country 

 from the sea-shore to the falls of the rivers, 

 were powerful, and consisted of seven 

 tribes, each tribe subdivided into clans. 

 In 1607, from the sea coast to the moun- 

 tains, and from Patowmac to the south water 

 of James' River, there were above forty 

 tribes. {Sqq Jefferson' s Notes, 127, 274.) 



The Cat Indians, a Malay race, were 

 exterminated by the Iroquois of the Tartar 

 stock, says Dr. Mitchell. {Messrs. Yates 

 and Moulton's Hist, of New York, p. iv. 

 An excellent and useful work.) 



• Huitziton was a person of great authority 

 among the Aztecs, (in Asia,") and who, for some 

 reason, not known, persuaaed his countrymen 

 to chanj;e their country. While he was thus 

 meditating, a little bird was singing in a tree 

 tihui, tihui, which, in their language, means let 

 US go. " Do yoo hear that, friend Tecpaltzin ?" 

 said he : " it is the warning of some secret Divi- 

 nity to leave this country and find another. 

 These respectable persons drew the body of 

 their nation (the other six tribes) over to their 

 party. {Clavigeroy vol. i. 112.) This relates 

 to the Aztecs, who arrived in 1178, with six 

 other tribes, by land. Ridiculous as this would 

 appear in any other history, it is not unworthy 

 of consideration in inquiries in America regard- 

 ing tribes ; any one of them ascertained among 

 the Indians, will greatly facilitate further elu- 

 cidations in history and chronology. 

 ^ t Thesketchof the History of the Six Nations 

 IS from a Discourse by the Hon. De Witt Clin- 

 ton, a very valuable Kssay, in the collec. of 

 the Hist. Soc. of New York, vol. ii. 1814. 



ASIATIC HISTORY, 

 broad. (Notes to AbulGhazi, 637.) There 

 were more than twenty tribes of Moguls. 

 (See Abul Ghazi, ch. xiii. xiv.) 



The Calraucs are composed of an infi- 

 nite number of tribes. {Abul G. 538.) 



The wolf is the banner of the TurkSf 

 (See this Journal, vol. v. 148.) Stone 

 Tortoises, of great size, were found at 

 Olougyourt, the capital of Keyuc, Great 

 Mogul, A.D. 1245. (Conq.of Peru, 8fc. 

 p. 179.) The late General Kyd had a 

 highly-polished greenstone tortoise, which 

 he told the writer he had brought from 

 Northern Hindostan. " The earth stands 

 firm upon thy broad bach, Cesava ! as- 

 suming the body of a tortoise: be victorious, 

 Heri, Lord of the Universe .'" {Sir TV, 

 Jones on the Hindoos, vol. i. 289.) This is, 

 probably, what the author of the " Re- 

 marks " on Major Long's Expedition al- 

 ludes to as the Totem, or armorial badge 

 of the tribe : it is a religious distinction 

 also among the Laplanders. Hyu is their 

 God of wolves J Nyrke, of squirrel-hunting j 

 Uko and Rowne are their Gods who com- 

 mand tempests, &c. Olmack is their 

 nominative plural for m.an, {Scheffer's 

 Lapland, pp. 22, 78.) An Ostiac swears 

 fidelity to the Czar, by a hatchet, with 

 which he has killed a bear. His hatchet 

 is buried with him ; also his knife, a horn 

 of tobacco, and a model, in wood, of his 

 flint and briquet to strike fire. {Pallas, iv. 

 75.) These, therefore, appear to be the 

 arms of Turks, Moguls, and Siberians. 



