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from any part of Europe weftward, becaufc 

 we know that there are wide feas between 

 Europe and America, which reach pretty 

 iiear the North Pole, in countries where few 

 or no land birds are found, even in the fum- 

 mer : therefore I imagine, that they have 

 found a way eaftward from Tartary. We 

 cannot indeed fay there is a commodious paf- 

 fage that way, fince Japan in Afia, and Ca- 

 lifornia in America, are the neareft lands to 

 each other that we certainly know of, which, 

 however, are at a very great diftance : yet we 

 know not but there may be iflands, or ex- 

 tended continent, between thefe lands, fome- 

 thing to the northward, that may join, or 

 nearly join, Afia and America. I think our 

 finding fmali land birds of the fame indivi- 

 dual fpecies in both parts of the world, is 

 a probable reafon for this opinion. I cannot 

 help thinking, that America was alfo peopled 

 with the human fpecies from Afia eaftward. 

 What has confirmed me in this opinion is a de- 

 scription of the Samoeds [man-eaters] to the 

 fiofth-eaft of Archangel in Ruflia : fee Le 



Bruyn's 



