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COMPARED 



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-and both would afterwards in the new climate preferve in manners 



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fome meafure the hue and complexion they brought from the 

 country which they left laft : upon thefe premifes we ventured to 

 fuppofe that the two races of men in the South Sea arrived there 



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by different routs, and were defcended from two different fets of 



men 



This furm-ife might be rendered more probable and 



pened 



as it were into fa<5t, if any record or hiflorical proof could be 



Hedged in favour of th 



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but how can we 



ped 



find fuch hiftorical proofs, where no records are kept ? However 



five nations of the firfl enumerated race feem 



come from the 



Northward and by the Caroline-iflands, the Ladrones, the Manilla 



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and the ifland of Borneo, to have defcended from the Malays : 

 whereas on the contrary, the black race of men feems to have 

 iprung from the people that originally inhabited the Moluccas, 



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rand on the approach of the Malay 'tribes withdrew into the 



parts of their illes and 



The language of thefe 



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two races in fome meafure proves the affertion, efpecially as it is 

 evident that the five firfl branches fpeak only dialedls of one general 

 ianguage preferving feveral words of the Malay-language ; whereas 

 the three tribes of the latter race, have not even a fimilarity of 

 fpeech among themfelves j and that none of thefe languages has the 

 ieafl or mofldiflant reference to any American language fpoken on 

 the Weftern coafts of America, When we confider the difference 



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