3$o On the Origin and 



Cpoke Syriack, and a numerous tribe of Abyjinians, ufed one primitive dia- 

 led wholly diftind from the idiom juft mentioned, is, I believe, undif- 

 puted, and, I am fure, indifputablej but that the fettlers in China and 

 Japan had a common origin with the Hindus, is no more than highly pro- 

 bable 9 and, that all the Tartan, as they are inaccurately called, were 

 primarily of a third feparate branch, totally differing from the two others 

 in language, manners, 2nd features, may indeed be plaufibly conjectured, 

 but cannot, for the reafons alledged in a former efTay, be perfpicuoufly 

 fhown, and for the pnfent therefore mud be merely aflumed. Could 

 thefe fads be verified by the beft attainable evidence, it would not, I pre- 

 fume, be doubted, that the whole earth was peopled by a vari fy of 1I001S 

 from the Indian, Arabian, and Tartarian branches, or by fuch intermix- 

 tures of them, as, in a couife of ages, might naturally have happened. 



Now I admit without hefitation the aphorifm of LinnjEtjs, that " in 

 ** the beginning God cre:ted cue pair only of every living fpecies, which 

 * l has a diverfity of fex ;" but, fince that incomparable naturalifl argues prin- 

 cipally from the wonderful diffufion cf vegetables, and from an hvpothe- 

 f\s, that the water on this globe has been continually fulfiding, I venture 

 to produce a fhorter and clofer argument in fupport of his dodrine. That 

 Nature, of which firnplicity appears a diitinguifhing attilbute, does nothing 

 in vain, is a maxim in philofophy; and agunft thofe, who deny maxims, 

 we cannot difpute; but it is vain and fuperfluous to do by many means ischat 

 may be done by fewer, and this is another axiom received into courts of 

 judicature from the fchools of philofophers ; we mufi not, therefore, fays 

 our great Newton, admit more caufes of natural things, than thofe, which 

 are true, and f efficiently account for natural phenomena; but it is true, that 

 one pair at leafi of every living fpecies muil at firfl have been created - f and 



