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bitants of those countries. Other bones, wrap- 

 ped in fabrics resembling those of the Sandwich 

 and Feejee islands, are found in the natural 

 grottoes of Kentucky. What is become of those 

 nations of Louisiana anterior to the Lenni- 

 Lenapes, the Shawanese, and perhaps even to 

 the Sious (Nadowesses, Narcotas) of the Mis- 

 souri, who are strongly mungolized; and who, 

 it is believed, according to their own traditions, 

 came from the coast of Asia? In the plains 

 of South America, as I have elsewhere observed, 

 we scarcely find a few hillocks (cerros hechos 

 a mano), and no where any works of fortifi- 

 cation analogous to those of the Ohio. On a 

 vast space of ground however, at the Lower 

 Oroonoko as well as on the banks of the Cassi- 

 quiare and between the sources of the Essequi- 

 bo and the Rio Branco, there are rocks of gra- 

 nite covered with symbolic figures. These 

 sculptures denote, that the generations extinct 

 belonged to nations different from those, which 

 now inhabit the same regions. There seems 

 to be no connection between the history of 

 Mexico, and that of Cundinamarca and of Peru, 

 at the west, on the back of the Cordilleras ; 

 but in the plains of the east a warlike and long 

 ruling nation displays in it's features, and it's 

 physical constitution, traces of a foreign origin. 

 The Garibbees preserve traditions, that seem 

 to indicate some ancient communications be- 



