254 SIR J. W. DAWSON, C.M.Q., F.R.S., ETC., ON SPECIMENS 



ancient towns of Stadacona and Hoclielaga found bj 

 Cartier in the St. Lawrence in the sixteenth century, and 

 which have been replaced by the cities of Quebec and 

 Montreal. It would appear from these traditions that the 

 tribes of the Huron-Iroquois stock whose cranial resemblance 

 to the Guanches has been already stated, believed that their 

 original seat was on the Atlantic coast.* It would thus 

 seem probable that the resemblance of their crania to those 

 of the Guanches may have arisen from a common origin at 

 no very remote period, as the westward migration of these 

 tribeswas still in progress at the time of the discovery of 

 America. 



Mr. Hyde Clarke Avas, I believe, one of the first to direct 

 attention m England to the connection of the language of 

 the Guanches and aUied peoples with those of the natives of 

 Brazil and the West India Islands. In America as well as in 

 Europe, Dr. Retzius has ably maintained a similar connection 

 on the basis! of cranial characters. The latter says :— " With 

 regard to the primitive dolichocephali of America, I enter- 

 tain the hypothesis that they are nearly related to the 

 Guanches of the Canary Islands and to the Atlantic popu- 

 lations of Africa which Latham comprises under the appel- 

 lation of Egyptian Atlantidas. We find one and the same 

 form of skull in the Canary Islands, in front of the African 

 coast and in the Carib Islands on the opposite coast which 

 faces Africa. The colour of the skin on' both sides of the 

 Atlantic is represented in both these races as being of a 

 reddish brown.'^f 



In all such comparisons the question occurs wheiher the 

 analogies observed are mere accidental resemblances arising 

 fromlike conditions of existence, or depend on migrations ; 

 audit maybe very difficult to attain to any certain con- 

 clusion. In the case of America, I have summed up in my 

 work Fossil Men, the evidence to show a threefold 

 resemblance pointing to Northern Asia and Pohnesia in 

 the west, and to the Mediterranean region and the"^ Atlantic 

 islands on the east. This threefold indication, I think, 

 greatly strengthens the argument for migration. 



In Canada, Wilson and Hale have advocated this 

 view. In the United States opinions seem divided, since, at 

 the Chicago Congress of Anthropology in 1893, the adven- 



* Journal of American Folk-lore, 1894. 

 t Smithsonian Report, 1859, p. 266. 



