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conftantly prevail there, prevent all navigation from 

 the Weft to the Eaft j then he examines feveral 

 American languages, in order to compare them v/ith 

 one another, which is not the beft part of his work, 

 at leaft, if we may form a judgment from the extract 

 he has given us of a vocabulary of the Haron lan- 

 guage, in order to compare it with that of Mexico ; 

 for he has taken it from brother Gabriel Saghart, a 

 Recollet, who underftood very little of that tongue. 



He does not appear to be better acquainted with 

 the religion of the Indians of Canada, in which he 

 endeavours to difcover traces which might have led 

 him to their rirft original ; and indeed, all this dif- 

 play of learning does not much conduce to the end 

 he has in view : befides, although no one of his 

 age has made a better connected work, or treated 

 of the Weft Indies with fo much accuracy, yet we 

 now meet with feveral things in his performance, 

 which ftand in need of correction. 



He concludes, with a fliort explication of the opi- 

 nion of Emanuel de Moraez, a Portuguefe, extract- 

 ed from the twentieth book of his Hiftory of 

 Brazil ; a work, which has not as yet been pub- 

 lished. According to this author, America has 

 been wholly peopled by the Carthaginians and Ifra- 

 ehtes. With regard to the firft, his proof is, that 

 they had made difcoveries at a great diftance from 

 Africa, the progrefs of which being put a ftop to 

 by the fenate of Carthage, hence it came to pafs, 

 that thofe who happened to be then in the newly 

 difcovered countries, being cut off from all com- 

 merce with their countrymen, and deftitute of many 

 neCeffaries of life, fell foon into a ftate of barbarity. 

 As to the Ifraelites, Moraez pretends, '^hat nothing 

 but circumcifion is wanting, in order toXonftitute a 



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