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toner's address. 
or Bokhara, on the eastern border. Granting Asia to 
be the home of the first parents of the human family, the 
problem still remains to account for man upon the 
North American continent, which modern investigation 
renders probable is the oldest. 
Were I inclined, I have neither the time nor ability 
to discuss the merits of the hypothesis of separate and 
distinct centers of either contemporaneous or the sub- 
sequent creations of man among the earlier animated 
beings in different parts of the world. I only allude to 
the subject so as not to appear indifferent to the solu- 
tion of the question, and because I deem it unscientific 
to ignore the theory or to declare that it is impossible 
for primitive races to have been created in separate lo- 
calities and at different periods in the world's history 
These are questions that have engaged able minds. I 
will attempt nothing further than to indicate some of 
the more noted occurrences gathered from history, 
that might have favored large immigration to this part 
of the world, and concede, for the present, that it is 
probable that population was originally distributed 
from a single center, and that the continent of America 
w^as once less difficult to reach by land than it has 
been in modern times. But man neither immigrates 
nor migrates without adequate motives. If the only 
cradle of our race was in Asia, what then were the 
probable reasons for man's immigration to America and 
all other parts of the world ? To make an exhaustive 
study of this problem is outside of my present purpose, 
but I shall give in a note, in the preparation of which 
I have been much assisted by my friend, M. F. Morris, 
Esq., some of the more notable events recorded in his- 
