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PHYSICAL HISTORY OF MAN. 



I once visited the Natick tribe, residing within a few miles of 

 Boston; and found them few in number, and much intermixed with 

 Negroes. I recently fell in with a party of Penobscots, on their 

 return from a visit to Boston. They had tents; and the women 

 were neatly dressed, and all industriously occupied; chiefly in weav- 

 ing baskets of various pattern, which they disposed of by the way. 

 Several could speak English; and on asking one of them about her 

 journey, she replied in a low voice and with an anxious look, " The 

 country is too full !" I saw no marks of Negro admixture ; but those 

 of European, were sufficiently obvious. They were all fairer than the 

 usual aboriginal standard ; and one of the men was in no respect dis- 

 tinguishable from a European. 



The Seminoles, I have been informed, " mix with Negroes, but 

 are careful to keep the children out of sight." I have never seen 

 Seminoles, but from portraits and descriptions, I am satisfied that they 

 belong to the Mongolian race. 1 may say the same of the Creeks ; 

 in regard to whom, however, I have fewer materials for forming an 

 opinion. 



The aboriginals of our Eastern States, have been suffered to pass 

 away, with little care taken to preserve a record of their attainments 

 and the arts in their possession. Another century, and of their imple- 

 ments, stone hatchets and arrow-heads will almost alone be left, to 

 tell that such a people has existed. 



Figures of human heads have been obtained by Mr. Squier from 

 the ANCIENT MOUNDS of the Ohio; and the features are unequivocally 

 those of the Mongolian race. The various accompanying articles, 

 (such as pipes, representations of the toad, deer, puma, &c.,) afford 

 another instance of the universal rule in monumental history: that the 

 most ancient works are not only the most gigantic and enduring, but 

 they manifest great refinement of workmanship, and purity of taste. 

 In this instance, however, refinement was unexpected from tribes, 

 who were evidently in the ' hunter state.' 



