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this argument is not the only one we have of this 

 circumftance, if what I have often heard related by 

 father Grollon, a French jefuit, as undoubted matter 

 of fad may be depended on. This father, fay 

 they, after having laboured fome time in the mil- 

 lions of New France, pafTed over to thofe of China. 

 One day as he was travelling in Tartary, he met 

 a Huron woman, whom he had formerly known in 

 Canada : he afked her, by what adventure lhe had 

 been carried into a country fo diftant from her own ? 

 She made anfwer, that having been taken in war, 

 fhe had been conducted from nation to nation, till 

 lhe arrived at the place where fhe then was. I 

 have been allured, that another jefuit paffing by 

 way of Nantz, in his return from China, had there 

 related much fuch another affair of a Spanifh woman 

 of Florida : fhe had been taken by certain Indians, 

 and given to thofe of a moft diftant country, and by 

 thefe again to another nation, till fhe had thus 

 been fuccefiively pafTed from country to country, 

 had travelled regions extremely cold, and at laft 

 found herfelf in Tartary, and had there married a 

 Tartar, who had palled with the conquerors into 

 China, and there fettled. It is indeed true, that 

 thofe who have failed fartheft to the eaftward of 

 Afia, by purfuing the coafts of Jeffo or Kamrfchat- 

 ka, have pretended to have perceived the extremity 

 of this continent, thence concluding, that between 

 Afia and America, there could poffibly be no com- 

 munication by land ; but befides that, Francis 

 Guella, a Spaniard, if we may believe John Hugh 

 de Linfchooten, hath confirmed, that this fepara- 

 tion is no more than a ftreight, a hundred miles 

 over ; the laft voyages of the Japonefe give grounds 

 to think that this ftreight is only a bay, above 

 which there is a paffage over land* 



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