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thered fpecies, which are neither able to fly nor to 

 fwim fofar? Father Acofta has likewife very well 

 obferved, in the opinion of this learned Dutchman, 

 that wild beafts might have found a free paflage 

 by land, and that if we do not meet in the New 

 World with horfes or cattle, to which he might have 

 added, elephants, camels, rhinoceros's, and many 

 others ; it is becaufe thofe nations who paned thi- 

 ther, either were not acquainted with their ufe, or 

 had no convenience to tranfport them : yet there 

 are cattle in America, but of a fpecies very different 

 from any of thofe known in our hemifphere. 



As to what relates to the human fpecies, de 

 Hornn excludes from America, i. The Ethiopians, 

 and all the Blacks, both of Africa and Afia ; the 

 few Negroes found in the province of Careta, hav- 

 ing, without doubt, been brought there by accident, 

 a fhort time before. 2. The Norwegians, Danes, 

 Swedes, Celtes, and in a word, all the northern and 

 middle countries of Europe and Afia. Mean while 

 it may be obferved, the Celtes and ancient Britons 

 were much addicted to navigation, and as likely as 

 any other people to tranfport themfelves to America. 

 3. The Samoeides and Laplanders. His reafon for 

 excluding all thefe nations is this, that there are no 

 Americans who have white curled hair and beards, 

 excepting the Miges? in the province of Zapoteca* 

 the Scheries, on the river of Plate? and the Malo- 

 poques in Brazil. The Efquimaux have likewife 

 white hair ; which exceptions embarrafs the queftion 

 not a little. 



All die Indians of Afia, continues de Hornn, 

 believe the Metempfychofis : therefore that people 

 could not have palled into America, where this 

 doctrine is not fo much as known. Yet good au- 

 j* ' thors, 



