Identity of Race in the American and Asiatic Man. r> 



is evidently that of the Tartars. This opinion is founded upon 

 loiir considerations. 



_ 1. The siiniiarity of physiognomy and feature*. His excel- 

 lency M Genet, late minister- plenipotentiary from France to the 

 Ignited States, is w-il acvpiaiuted with tlie faces hues and figures 

 of our Indians and of the Asiatrc Tartars ; a!id is perfectly satis- 

 fied of their mutual resemblance. Mons. Cazeaux, consul of 

 l- ranee to New- York, has drawn the same conclu>ion from a 

 careful examination of the native man of North America and 

 Northern Asia. 



Mr. SmiJjcrt, who had been emp.loyed, as Josiah I-Joigs, esq. 

 now commissioner of the land office of the United States relates, 

 in executing paintings of Tartar visages, for the grand duke of 

 luscany, was so struck with the similn.ritv of their features to 

 those of theNaraganset Indians, tlutt he proT-ounces them mem- 

 bers of t!ie same great family of mankind. The anecdote is pre- 

 served, with all its circumstances, in the fourteenth volume of 

 the iMedical Repository. 



_ Within a k\v mouths I examined over and again s&vew or 

 eight Chinese sailors, who had assisted in navigating a ship from 

 Macao to New- York. The thinness of their beat'ds, the bay 

 complexion, the black lank hair, tiie aspect of the eyes, the con- 

 tour of the face, and in short the general external character, 

 induced every ijerson who observed them, to ren:ark how nearly 

 they resembled the Mohegans and Oneidas of New-York, / 

 Sidi Mellimelli, the Tunisian envoy to the United States in 

 ISO-t, entertained the same opinion., on" beholding the Cherokees, 

 Osages, and Miaraics, assembled at tiie city of Washington du- 

 ring his residence there. Their Tartar physiognomy struck him 

 in a moment. 



2. The affinity of their languages. The late learned and en- 

 terpnsmg Professor Barton took the lead in this curious inquiry, 

 lle^collected as many words as he could from the hmgiiages 

 spoken in Asia and America; and he concluded, from the nu- 

 merous coincidences of sound a'.id significatioti, that there must 

 have been a common origin. 



3. The existence of corresponding customs. I mean at pre- 

 sent to state that of shaving away the hnir of the scalp, from the 

 fore part and .sides of the head, so that iiotliing is left but a tuft 

 or lock on the crown. 



The custom of smoking the pipe, on soleum occasions, to the 

 four cardinal points of the compass, to the heavens and to the 

 earth, is reported, upon the most credible authority, to distinguish 

 e(|ually the hordes of the Asiatic Tartars and th^ bands of the 

 .Amtrican Siaiix. 



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