vlii PREFACE. 
quainted with on this fide the Globe. But are 
the Negroes in Guinea more fimilar in thefe re- 
ipe&s, to the reft of the world ? Let any one tell 
me, why moft of the Africans we. black and 
woolly-pated, and I will fhew him why the A.- 
mericans are red and without hair on their chins* 
and many parts of their bodies,. After all are we 
fufficiently acquainted with the utmoft powers 
of nature ? to be lure the offspring of the fame 
pair in 3 or 4000 years might without a fuper- 
tural interpofition become of various complexi- 
ons, and fuppofe we were convinced of this, 
may not the infinite power that created our firft 
parents, and miraculouily wrought the con- 
fufion of tongues, have thus diftinguilh’d 
their pofterity for purpofes only known to his 
infinite wifdom. I ought not to omit that P. 
Charlevoix recommends a careful obfervation 
of thole Amrican languages, that have the 
marks of being original, and a companion of 
them with thole of Europe , AJia, and Africa , 
and gives very judicious Realons lor depending 
on a fimilitude in this, preferable to that of man- 
ners; I lira 11 only add, that Mr. Lewis Evans 
a companion of our author’s in this journey, and 
askilfull lurgeon, has lately publilh'd a map 
of New Tork, PenjUvania, and Jerfey , with part - 
of Virginia , Maryland and Neve- England, 
chiefly founded on a&ual furveys. This map in- 
cludes the route here delcribed, which ieems laid 
down very 'exadly. And is fold by Mr. Bovs Ids 
map and print-leller in Corn hill. 
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