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the continent they are situated; yet the examination of the 
whole will be useful; as the few weapons, ornaments, an 
oe of labor, ' which may still be found, will afford 
ew varieties, and furnish i important aid, in any comparison 
pe ihe Pott <% similar remains in the northern regions of 
Asia and Eur 
The Asis: ae scattered over the whole tract from 
the borders of the Wolga and its western branches, to the 
lake Baikal, and perhaps to the straits which separate 
Asia from America, according to Mr. Tooke, are found only 
in plains and extensive deserts, which seem to have been 
the abode of a nation which cee mike pasturage and the 
produce of chase. There is 
a striki 
tite of hts eaters 
icat as none, it is believed, have yet been found in America 
in the mountainous regions. It is true Mr. Tooke supposes 
these Asiatic monuments to be of comparatively mode 
date, and refers them to the Tartars of Jenghis Khan and 
their immediate successors, and it ig certain that the Kal- 
rues are still in the habit of burying horses, arms, &c. with 
their chiefs. The truth probably is, that these monuments 
are of very different ages; and that there are among them 
those of the ancient Scythians, as well as those of the mod- 
ern Tartars who have succeeded them. It is by a careful 
discrimination of the different ages of these tumuli; their 
several peculiarities, and especially the utensils which may 
be discovered in them; and by an exact comparison o' of 
these with similar remains on our own continent, that we 
can hope to approximate towards the time when these latter 
works were erected. Whatever may be thought of this, all 
will admit, that the emo of — i is on e of ra- 
ional curiosity. 
pte oe per : 
We consider this our forme: 
stock of materials ie deciding the question "which has so 
long perplexed historians and antiquaries, and which has 
— to'so a er speculation,—we — 
isan m objet which itis discbily wi within the desig of nab as- 
what Arc have already accomplished will fa~ 
~ cilitate their fatute operations. 
