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Mr. Morgan, in his comprehensive work,* has taken a decided step in 

 a new field to prove the Asiatic origin of at least a large part of the Ameri- 

 can nations. The results which Mr. Morgan has attained, after many years 

 of labor, lead him to believe that there is no evidence of the Americans, or 

 the Ganowanian f family, as he designates the nations of both Americas 

 exclusive of the Eskimos, having been derived from the Polynesians, and 

 he is forced to the conclusion that its system of consanguinity unites the 

 Ganowanian with the Turanian family of Asia. He points out J the great 

 probability of the route of migration having been by way of the Kurilian 

 and the Aleutian Islands § at a very early time, and, as he thinks, long prior 

 to the passage of the Eskimos, as hyperboreans, across Behring's Straits. 



" In other words, the Turanian and Ganowanian families drew their common system 

 of consanguinity and affinity from the same parent nation or stock from whom both 

 were derived; and that each family has propagated it with the streams of the blood to 

 each of its subdivisions upon their respective continents through all the centuries of 

 time by which their separation from each other is measured." || 



Mr. Morgan's argument against the migration of the Malay type by 

 way of the Polynesian Islands is that the Malays of the islands were from 

 an early migration, before the peculiar system of family relationship 

 expressed by the Ganowanian and Turanian system was developed, H and 

 that the difference is such that the system would show itself had such a 

 migration taken place, whereas the Ganowanian family was an offshoot at 

 a later period, when other forms had been engrafted on the original stock. 

 Though Mr. Morgan had not the materials upon which to base any decided 

 conclusions as to the union of the Eskimo family with that of any Asiatic 

 stock, he conjectures that its affinities will be with either the Tungusian 



historical period," p. 435. He, however, dwells upon the same facts, showing the differences between the 

 tribes north and south of Mount Shasta. 



Loew, Annual Report U. S. Geographical Surveys West of 100th Meridian, 1876, p. 321. 



Hyde Clap.ke, Jonrnal Anthropological Institute, London, 1874, vol. iv, p. 148. 



Bancroft, Native Races of the Pacific States, vol. i, p. 187. 



* Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family. By Lewis H. Morgan, Smith- 

 sonian Contributions, No. 218, Washington, 1871. 



t Bow and arrow people, p. 131. 



t Page 426. 



$ For a statement of the physical conditions which Mr. Dall thinks should throw the Aleutian 

 route out of consideration, see Dall, Tribes of the Extreme Northwest, rip. 96, 97. (1877.) 



|| Page 508. ' 



If Page 509. 



