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mingled with the more elaborate stoneware of their descendants ; 
the so-called Indians of to-day. 
Having made a collection of these stone implements and weap- 
ons, it was natural to attempt Fig. 13. 
to classify them at once, and 
when we speak of things so 
dissimilar as axes and arrow 
heads, it seems strange that 
there should be any doubt at 
times, whether any partic- 
ular specimen should belong 
to one class or the other; 
yet we have met with such 
specimens, and our cabinet 
contains an unbroken series 
from the latter to the former, 
from triangular arrow heads, 
whose three sides scarce 
measure an inch, to jasper 
hatchets(?) a foot in length; 
and these hatchets run as 
gradually into axes, as the ar- 
row points cease to be such, TT 
and are oa atai lance a SPE or spears, as fancy dictates. 
ugh k tol Se T 
sa , the Esqu nimaux seem abe contented where they are, 5 it th ey are ry dif- 
ferent eee from the siey = anag” ” We canno ot but think that there 1 was an eid 
tochthon. ic people here in North America. and if an A 
ve away or absorbed the primis race that ttle such rude aparen asone 
no sep and , that we have figured. 
wi 
them sa 
345), “ It is my rept hat the great continents were already occu- 
d, though sparse, eee when man was no more advanced 
the lowest savages of to-day, and although I am far from believing that the 
bol sate of civilization which now occur can } be aprit and accounted for by the 
mst 
e 
esla much light on the very different amount of progress yria h has been attained by 
races.” That is the migration from Asia that Bunsen claimed has absorbed 
a 
America mu 
he relative positions of — and ocean may have been widely dif- 
“rent from what now exists, or existed when Bunsen would date the Turanian migra- 
fon from Asia, 
