4 Identify of Race in the Jmerican and Asiatic Man. 



IS highly to the credit of the Strand or Waterloo Bridge Com- 

 pany that thev have adopted the former more duralj'e material: 

 ibr/had mere i)rofit been their object, the Portland stone would 

 certainly have been preferred for its cheapness. 



V»'e nc-L ,', scarcely add that this magnificent structure is a 

 theme of ac!::;iration for beauty of form and exquisite masonry to 

 all persons of taste or skill in arcbitecture. The celebrated Ca- 

 nova in particular, when lately in London, pronounced it to be 

 the grandest work of the kind in the world. 



II. The original Inhalilanl^ of America shown to be of the same 

 Family and Lineage ivilk those of Asia; by a Process of 

 reasoinng not hitherto advanced. By Samuel L. Mitchill, 

 Af.D., Projessfir of Natural History in the Uniuersily of 

 Ncw-Yb' k; in a Comrmmication to DeWitt Ci.inton, Es(j, 

 President (f the Neiu-York Philosophical Society, dated Neu- 

 York, March 'd\,\S\{i*. 



J. HE view which I took of the varieties of the human race, in 

 mv course of Natural History, delivered in the University of New- 

 York, differs in so many particulars from that entertained by the 

 great zoologist of the age, that I give you for information, and 

 without delay, a summary of mv yesterday's lecture to my class. 



I denied, in the beginning, the assertion that the American 

 aborigines were of a peculiar constitution, of a race svi generis, 

 and of a copper colour. All these notions were treated as fanci- 

 ful and visionary. 



The indigenes of the two Ameiicas appear tome to be of the 

 same stock and genealogy v%-ith the inh.abitimts of northern and 

 southern Asia, 'i'he northern tribes were probably more hardy, 

 ferocious and warlike, than those- of the south. The tribes or 

 the h)wer latitudes seem to have been greater proficients in the 

 arts, particularly of making clothes, clearing the ground, and 

 erecting works of defence." 



Tlie ].n\rallei between the people of America and Asia affords 

 this im>)ortant conclusion, that on both continents the hordes 

 dwelling in the higher latitudes have overpowered the more ci- 

 viUzed, though feebler inhabitants of the countries situated to- 

 wards the equator. As the Tartars have overrun China, so the 

 Aztecas subdued Mexico. As the Huns and Alans desolated 

 Italy, so the Chipev.as and Iroquois prostrated the populous set- 

 tlements on both. banks of the Ohio. 



The sur\iving race in these terrible conflicts between the dif- 

 ferent nations of the ancient native residents of North America, 



• Comniunicatctl 1<) the Author. 



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