228 NATURAL AND CIVIL 



marked with a similarity of colour, features, and 

 every circumstance of external appearance. 

 Pedro de Cieca de Leon, who was one of tlie 

 conquerors of Peru, and had travelled through 

 many provinces of America, p^ives this account 

 of the inhabitants .• " The people, men and wo- 

 men, although there is such a multitude of 

 tribes or nations as to be almost innumerable, 

 and such diversity of climates, appear neverthe- 

 less like the children of one father and mother."* 

 Ulloa, an able philosopher, and an accurate ob- 

 server, visited and observed many of the Indian 

 tribes and nations, of South America : He ob- 

 served also the Indians at Cape Breton, in North 

 America ; and saith of the latter, that they were 

 the same people with the Indians of Peru, re- 

 sembling them in complexion, in manners, and 

 in customs ; the only visible difference, being, 

 that the Indians at Cape Breton, were of a larger 

 stature than those at Peru. '' If we have seen 

 one American," saith he, " we may be said to 

 have seen them all, their colour and make are 

 so nearly the same."t And it is worthy of re- 

 mark, that no nation or people upon the earth, 

 ever have spread over so large a tract of coun- 

 try, as these red men of America. 



Were these men the same people with the 

 inhabitants of the other parts of the globe ? Or 

 did they radically difter fron\ the men of all oth- 

 er countries ? 1. They were of the same com- 

 plexioii^ with the most ancient naiion in Asin. 

 r rom authentic documents, we are able to trace 

 the existence, and national transactions of the 



♦ Robertson's Hut. Am<'rica, "^'ol. \\. p 463. iicte 4J. 



