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Jnanners and customs, but by the affinity of 

 language, and a collection of similar words, 

 made from all the widely diffused islands and 

 countries visited by this celebrated navigator.'* 



A PEOPLE who had thus spread over on© 

 half of the globe, from the coast of Afi ica to- 

 wards America, at^id who had settled all the isl- 

 ands that lay between them, could scarcely 

 have avoided arriving upon the western co^ist 

 of America, and leaving some of her people 

 there. Several of the islands that wtre settled, 

 were near the American coast ; and it must 

 have been much easier to have discovered the 

 continent along the western coast of America, 

 than to have found so many small and scattered 

 islands. It is therefore highly probable, that 

 the same people who spread over the islands in 

 the Pacilic ocean, should at times arrive also ou 

 the western shores of the continent. In both 

 these ways might people from different nations 

 in Asia, find a passige into America, and at 

 very different periods of time. 



The Indians however, were not the only men 

 which appeared in America. Another race or 

 kind of men were settled in the northtrn pc-rts 

 of the continent. These have been called Es' 

 quimaux. In their colour, dimensions',' features, 

 and customs, they differed much from the red 

 jnen. They were of a fallow or brownish com- 

 plexion : Their size about four feet in height ; 

 their faces long and wrinkled ; their noses thick 

 and compressed ; their eyes small and sunk ; 

 their cheeks much raised ; their evebrows and- 

 eyehds thick ; with small legs anci hands. 

 This nation bad spread over the most nortiieva 



