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&nts may Hill fubfiit in that immenfe 
continent, and not far from the 
fame fpot (a) . 
b 2 Traces 
(.-7) During Mr. Blankett's, Lieutenant in his 
Majefty's Navy, ftay at New Orleans, (lately the 
French and now the Spanifh chief fettlcment 
upon the MiJJtJippiy) an account came that the 
Ilinois had difcovered a people, whole houfes 
made of red earth, together with fome other cir- 
cumftances, induced the French to conclude this 
to be a fettlcment originally come from Japan. 
Mr. Aubrey, the Commandant of the place, 
fent him afterwards the following account, in a 
letter dated June 18, 1765. It was Mr. Des 
Voltes, a French officer fettled fince a long 
time among the Ilinois, who gave Mr. Aubrey 
his information about thefe Aiiatic figures, as he 
called them. Some of the inhabitants of the 
river Mijfour'i, reported, that towards the weft 
there had been feen men quite different from 
the red and the white men; (under thefe de- 
nominations arc underftood the Americans and 
the Europeans) that they wore long robes, and 
had muikets and arm?, which, though dif- 
ferent from ours, had dill the fame effect. ■ 
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