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Hitherto de Hornn keeps pretty clofe to his point, 

 and is fnre to return to it from time to time, and we 

 difcover the man of learning even in his greater!: 

 flights, but on the whole, one would fay, that by dint 

 of forming conjectures upon the agreement of names, 

 he fails prodigioufly in point of judgment. Who, 

 for example, would not laugh to hear him ferioufly 

 advance, that the Apalaches, a nation of Florida, 

 are the Apaleans of SoJinus, and that theTabians of 

 Ptolomy are the anceftors of the Tombas of Peru ? 

 What follows is ftill more ridiculous. There is, 

 fays he, a people, who are neighbours to the Mo- 

 guls called Huyrons -> thefe are the Hurons of Ca- 

 nada. Herodotus calls the Turks Yrcas ; thefe 

 are the Iroquoife and Souriquois of Arcadia. Un- 

 happily for fuch rare difcoveries, this conjecture leads 

 to a falfe conclufion ; all, or moft of the names of 

 the Indians of New France being of French ex- 

 traction. 



Nay more, the Hurons and Iroquoife, to whom 

 our author gives fo very different originals, fpeak 

 almoft the fame language, the one being a dialect 

 of the other ; whereas the Souriquois, to whom 

 Hornn gives the fame anceftors as to the Iroquoife, 

 hare abfolutely nothing in common with them ei- 

 ther in their language or genius. The language 

 they fpeak is a dialect of the Algonquin ; and the 

 Huron is as different from the Algonquin as the 

 Latin is from the Hebrew. Mufl not one then have 

 his imagination very flrongly impreffed to be able 

 to perfuade himfelf that the Meyro Humona of the 

 Brafilians, and the Paicuma of the inhabitants of 

 Santa Cruz come from St. Thomas, and are derived 

 from the language of the Turks, who before they 

 pafTed over to America, had fome knowledge of 

 this Apoftle ? 



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