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the East cape of Asia, and along the coasts of 

 America. 



The language, remarkable for its artificial con- 

 struction, the mode of life, the manners, arts, 

 the very peculiar navigation in leather-boats 

 (Kadjak bay dares *), the arms, the costume, are 

 every where the same in the essential parts, and 

 in the drawings given by travellers we can scarcely 

 distinguish the Greenlanders from the Tschukut- 

 skoi, or'Konagi. 



Vater, in Mithridates, vol. iii. part 3. p. 425, hesi- 

 tates to reckon the inhabitants of the Fox islands, 

 the Aleutians, with G. Forster among the Esqui- 

 maux ; but they clearly belong to the same race. 

 Dr. Eschscholtz has convinced himself of the essen- 

 tial coincidence of their differing dialects with the 

 original language, and they otherwise entirely re- 

 semble their relatives of the same race. This 

 people has evidently wandered from the American 

 continent westwards, to the islands ; the most 

 western of the chain have remained unpeopled 

 as those lying in the interior of the Kamtscliatka 

 basin. 



Tlie language of this branch of people is suffi- 

 ciently well known to us, chiefly by the school- 

 books in the Greenland dialect, for which we are 

 indebted to the Danish missionaries, and by the 

 Bible, translated into the Greenland and Labradore 



* It is remarkable that they are wanting among the northern 

 highlanders of Ross, 



