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Let us return to George de Hornn. This writer 

 does not exprefs himfelf with accuracy, when he 

 tells us, that North America is full of lions and 

 tigers. It is true, we find in the country of the 

 Iroquoife, a kind of tigers, the hair of which is of 

 a light grey, which are not fpotted, but which 

 have very long tails, * and whofe flefh is good eat- 

 ing : but except this, it is not till towards the Tro- 

 pick that you begin to fee true tigers and lions, 

 which is, however, no proof that they could not 

 have come from Tartary and Hircania ; but as by 

 advancing always fouthwards, they met with cli- 

 mates more agreeable to their natures, we may be- 

 lieve they have therefore entirely abandoned the 

 northern countries. 



What Solinus and Pliny relate, that the Scythian 

 Anthropophagi depopulated a great extent of coun- 

 try as far as the promontory Tabin ; and what 

 Mark Pol, the Venetian, tells us, that to the north- 

 eaft of China and Tartary, there are vail uninha- 

 bited countries, might be fufficient to confirm our 

 author's conjecture concerning the retreat of a great 

 number of Scythians into America. We find in 

 the ancients the names of fome of thefe nations : 

 Pliny fpeaks of the Tabians : Solinus mentions the 

 Apuleans ; who, he fays, had for neighbours the 

 MafTagetes, and whom Pliny allures us to have 

 entirely difappeared. Ammianus Marcellinus ex- 

 predy fays, that the fear of the Anthropophagi 

 obliged feveral of the inhabitants of thofe countries 

 to take refuge elfewhere. All thefe authorities form, 

 in my opinion, at lead a ftrong conjecture, that 

 more than one nation of America have a Scythian 

 or Tartar original, 



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