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types for the fashions of remote and distinct nations. Why 
should these not be the tall Allegwi tribes, anciently driven 
southward by the Lene Lenapes, who, many ages ago, came, 
according to their own traditions, from the west, far beyond 
the Missisippi, and made themselves masters of the country ? 
Nevertheless, even these appear to be copies, as will be 
pointed out in the sequel. 
Reverting to the oscillations of social life and emigration, 
it may next be remarked, that all the South Sea Islands, 
when first discovered, were found to be in possession of 
domestic poultry, indigenous only in Asia and Australasia. 
It is said that the same species was discovered by the first 
Spaniards, among the Aurocanos of the coast of Chili; and 
Cortez, in his letters, addressed to the Emperor Charles V., 
casually observes, when first he visited the markets of 
Mexico, that poultry and onions were abundantly sold in 
them. Had he referred to turkeys, grouse, or other galli- 
nacea of America, he would most likely have been somewhat 
more explicit, because they would have afforded the interest 
of novelty, which the first-named birds soon after excited in 
Spain. He mentions, in another place, fields of Indian corn 
(Zea Mais), by the name of mayz, making it, therefore, dis- 
tinct from the Tritica of the Old World. The objection that 
might be raised, that if poultry had really been introduced 
before the time of Columbus, the species would have been 
found wild in all the congenial latitudes, may be answered 
with the fact, that, although three centuries have elapsed 
since the arrival of the Spaniards, none are yet found wild 
in any part of the country, while the Guinea and pea-fowls 
brought so late as the seventeenth century, are abundant in 
the woods of the Great West India Islands, and in parts of 
South America. 
In the works of art at Palenque, representations have been 
found, bearing strong analogy to the scriptural records in 
Genesis ; and even the cross is sculptured between two high- 
nosed heroes. Again there are rocks carved with diagrams 
of similar design near Boston (at Dighton, on the banks of 
the Taunton), in many places of Guiana, and near Ekaterin- 
enburg in Siberia. We find the ears perforated, and the 
