Chap. II. A MB%JLC A. 3? 



into Tribes: They ufe indeed Bows, Arrows, Clubs, and a kind of Spears I 

 Their Houfes are cover'd with Palm-Tree-Leaves ; their Houfholdftuffcon- 

 fifts onely of a few Earthen Pots, and fuch Trinkets ; yet they have fome lit- 

 tle skill in Weaving, and though they gonaked, pride themfelves in Neck-Laces 

 and Bracelets, made of Mother of Pearl : But thefe for their Complexions and 

 Conftitution of Body,Cuftoms, and manners, are rather deriv'd from the Ame- 

 ricans, than they from rhem, and therefore we mull feek for their Original 

 from the North ; from which are but two ways , one from YJland and Grotn. 

 land, which Grotius endeavors to prove, but contradicted ; the other out of Tar* 

 tary, which certainly was the firft Nurfery , from whence the Americans were 



Tranfplanted. • • ,. . . 



Tartary or Tattary, fo call'd from the River Tatter, which runs thorow the "**—"-» 

 Countrey Mongul into the Northern Ocean , covers a great part of the Terre- 

 ftrial Globe ; the letter tartary makes out a confiderable part of Europe . the 



greater is Afia. 



This great Tartary, which is a thoufand Leagues long, and fix hundred broad, 

 reckons five chief Provinces, vi*.. the wild Tartary, inhabited by Herdfmen ; S*> 

 gatai, of which the Metropolis is Samarcand , famous for the mighty Tamerlane-, 

 next Turkeftan - 7 then IQtai, which the great Cham Commands ; and laftly, Old 

 Tartary, according to Andreas Ufarienfts, the habitation of Gog and Magog. 



Now we muft enquire from what Tartars the Americans are Extracted : 



Mornxm, <PofteUus, Genebrardus, <Poterus, and others are of opinion, That the *u.L*» 

 Tartars , which about the year rza8. under the Command of Zingis Cham 

 overfpread the Earth like a deluge, were the Succeffors of the ten Tribes of//- ^^^ 

 rati, which were carry'd into captivity to Ajfyria by Salmanazar. The name Tar- „„, 

 tary, or rather Tattaria, feems to be fome teftimony thereof, becaufe it fignifies 

 in the Syrian or Hebrew Tongue, (Remnants or (Remainders, as feemingly, becaufe 

 thefe Tartarian were remainders of the foremention'd Tribes; nay,the Northern 

 Tartary Herdfmen preferve to this day the Names Dan, Zabulon, and Haphthali : 

 Wherefore we need not to admire, why fo many Jews are found in <Rufia, Sar- 

 matia, and Liefland . nay, the nearer to Tartary, the more Jews there are. 



Circumcifion hath a long time been obferv'd among them , before Mahomet 

 brought in his new Law 5 it feems, that Mahomet order'd the Circumcifion and 

 other Laws, according to Mofes , to be obferv'd by the Northern people, be- 

 caufe that in his time, they began to Rebel, that fo they might the better be 



ke.pt in awe by their new Religion. uni.m.tm**. 



Joannes LeonclaVius relates, That in Liefland near <Rjga, he heard the wilde 

 Natives call'd Letti, not without great admiration, go crying along the High- 

 Ways and Fields, with a doleful voice Jem, Jem, Mafco lou i It is believ d that 

 they mourn torjerufalem and Damajcm , but by their long continuance in the 

 vaft Wilderneffes, they have forgot their Religion and Laws, and what elfe 

 might enable to tell us who they were. Several learned Authors queftion this 

 removal of the Ifraelites out of Affyria to Tartary, though to our Judgement their 

 Arguments are too weak, to take from them of the footing they have gotten 

 there • yet neverthelefs, the Israelites are not to be taken for the Planters of 

 America, for why elfe is not Judatfme as well found in America as in Tartary. But 

 it is already fliewn, thzt Atnerica was inhabited long before the difpcrfion olthe 



JjraelllCS* C a ' — ~-« ~^+ /iffcr/faiwarenot deriv'd 



Now to (hut up all, it is evident, that the firft Planters of America were not b.^,,.*^ 

 Europeans from the diffimilitude of the People, both in their Complexions, Lan- 

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