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sides of the question were confidently maintained by 

 eminent zoologists. It is probable the dispute is now 

 nearly being terminated, as, in the estimation of good 

 judges, proof little short of demonstrative has ap- 

 peared, confirming the opinion of those who assign this 

 far-famed animal to the genus Elephas" A Brief 

 Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century. By Samuel 

 Miller. New York, 1803, Vol. I, p. 120. 



P. 270 Essai sur cette question, quand et comment 

 rAmerique a-t-elle ete peuplee d'hommes et d'animaux 

 [par Samuel Engel]. Amsterdam, 1767, II, Ch. VI, 

 p. 298 ff. Les Anges ont ete les anciens habitant de 

 notre globe. 



Dr. Schoepf has used De Pauw's Recherches philo- 

 sophiques sur les Americains. Berlin, 1770, I, 321, 

 where Samuel Engel's theory is the subject of pleas- 

 antry. 



P. 278 Hugh Henry Brackenridge [Class of 1771, 

 later on the Supreme Bench of Pennsylvania] in 1776 

 ' went to Philadelphia, and supported himself by edit- 

 ing the United States Magazine." General Charles 

 Lee would have been glad to horse-whip the editor. 

 Brackenridge relinquished this work in 1781, going to 

 Pittsburg. 



Alexander, Princeton College in the Eighteenth Cen- 

 tury, p. 140. 



P. 278 " .... The principle which has been sup- 

 posed to be recognised by all European governments, 

 from the first settlement of America. The absolute, 

 ultimate title has been considered as acquired by dis- 

 covery, subject only to the Indian title of occupancy, 

 which title the discoverers possessed the exclusive 



