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become favage and barbarous but he looks upon k 

 as a real and rnoft ridiculous paradox to fuppofe that 

 Noah ever entertained any thoughts of peopling that 

 immenfe Continent. The ill-humour he is in, and 

 which is no doubt excited by fome of Lefcarbot's 

 arguments, which to tell truth, are far from being 

 without alloy, hinders him from feeing what is folid 

 and fenfible in this conjecture. But this proceeding 

 is common enough to the learned as if truth and 

 probability ceafed to be fuch from the mixture of 

 real proofs amongft thofe others by which they may 

 happen to be fupported. 



Edward Brerewood, a learned Englifhman, after 

 having refuted the ill -grounded opinion, which makes 

 all the Tartars defcend from the Israelites, and after 

 fhowing that the ignorance of the true etymology of 

 she name of Tartar, which comes neither from the 

 Hebrew nor the Syriack, but from the river Tartar, 

 will have the New World to have been entirely 

 peopled from this numerous nation his proofs are 

 thefe following. Firft, America has always been 

 better peopled on the fide towards Afia, than on 

 that towards Europe. Secondly, the genius of the 

 Americans has a very great conformity with that of 

 the Tartars, who never applied themfelves to any 

 art ; which is, however, not univerfally true. Third- 

 ly, the colour of both is pretty much alike ; k is 

 certain, the difference is not confiderabie, and is, 

 perhaps, the effect of the climate, and of thofe 

 mixtures with which the Americans rub themfelves. 

 Fourthly, the wild beafts that are feenin America, 

 and which cannot reafonably be fuppofed to have 

 been tranfported thither by fea, could only have 

 come by the way of Tartary. Laftly, he anfwers 

 an objection made to him with refpect to the cir- 

 cumcifion of the Tartars, and maintains, that this 



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