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mummies. On opening those of the Guenchee, remains of 
aromatic plants arc discovered, among which the Chenopo- 
dium ambrosioVdes is constantly perceived: the bodies are 
often decorated with small laces, to which are hung little 
discs of baked earth, which appear to have served as nume- 
rical signs, and resemble the qnippocs of the Peruvians, the 
Mexicans, and the Chinese. 
The population of islands being in general loss exposed 
than that of continents to the effect of migrations, we may 
presume that, in the time of the Carthaginians and the 
Greeks, the archipelago of the Canaries was inhabited by 
t he same race of men as were found by the Norman auc 
Spanish conquerors. The only monument that can throw 
any light on the origin of the Guanehes is their language; 
but unhappily there are not above a hundred and fifty words 
extant, and several express the same object, according to the 
dialect of the different islanders. Independently of these 
words, which have been carefully noted, there are* still some 
valuable fragments existing in the names of a great number 
of hamlets, hills, and valleys. The Guanehes, like the Bis- 
cayans, the Hindoos, the Peruvians, and all primitive nations, 
named places after the quality of the soil, the shape of the 
rocks, the caverns that gave them shelter, and the nature of 
the tree that overshadowed the springs.* 
* It lias been long imagined, (bat the language of the Guanehes had no 
analogy with the living tongues; but since the travels of Hornemann, and 
the ingenious researches of Marsdcn and Venturi, have drawn the atten- 
tion of the learned to the Berbers, who, like the Sarmatic tribes, occupy 
an immense extent of country in the north of Africa, we find that several 
Guanche words have common roots with words of the Chillia and Gebali 
dialects. We shall cite, for instance, the words : 
Heaven, in Guanche — Tigo ; 
n Berheric , — Tigot. 
Milk 
Barley 
Basket 
Water 
Alio ; 
Temasen ; 
Carianas ; 
Aenum ; 
Acho. 
Tomzeen. 
Carian. 
Anan. 
I doubt whether this analogy is a proof of a common origin ; hut it is 
an indication of the ancient connexion between the Guanehes and Berbers, 
a tribe of mountaineers, in which the ancient Numidians, Getuli, and 
Garamanti are confounded, and who extend themselves from the eastern 
extremity of Atlas by Ilarutsli and Fezzan, as far as the oasis of Siwali 
and Augela. The natives of the Canary Islands called themselves 
Guanehes, from guan , man ; as the Tonguesc call themselves bye , and 
tongni , which have the same signification as guan. Besides the nations 
