HISTORY OF VERMONT. 235 



and settled their colonies in Greenland. There 

 is but little room then to doubt but that the na- 

 tioFiofthe Esquimaux was derived from the 

 same people in the northwest parts of Europe. 

 Their descent therefore must have been from 

 the Tartars of Asia, for it was from them, that 

 the Laplanders, who are spread oyer the north- 

 western parts of Europe, uere derived. In the 

 year 1769, Pere Hall, an astronomer of Hungary, 

 was sent into Lapland to observe the transit of 

 Venus. This able philosopher had a goodoppor- 

 tunity to become acquainted with die manners, 

 customs, features, and languisge of the mhabi- 

 tants in that part of the globe : By his account, 

 « it appears that the Laplanders are onl> dcgen- 

 erate Tartars ; and that they, and the Hungari- 

 ans, originally sprung from the same breed of 

 men, and from the same country."^ 



The two kinds of men then that were in Amer- 

 ica were derived from the same source. The In- 

 dians and the Esquimaux, were both descenaed 

 from the man of Asia ; and probably the most 

 of them, from the same nation, the Tartars. In 

 America then nature had not made different ra- 

 ces of men, fitted for, and originally placed in 

 different climates. The men of America were 

 the same with the men of Asia : And both oi 

 them migrated from one place to another, and 

 spread through all the various climates of the 

 earth. They were distinguished by the ditter- 

 ences of complexion, dimension, features, arbi- 

 traiy customs, and peculiarities of manners, as 

 much as the inhabitants arc in other parts of the 



• KaJm'» Sketcbe* of the Hi»l. of Mwi,I. p. ". 



