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fearches. From the difference in 
the make, drefs, and manners of 
the new difcovered inlanders, we 
might be induced to fufpeft that 
the moil northerly parts of the new 
world were peopled by the moil la- 
vage Afiatic Tartars, orTchuktfchi, 
while the inhabitants of the more 
moderate climates, and amon^fl 
them the Mexicans and Peruvians, 
were indebted for fome part of their 
induftry and civilization to theTun- 
gufi Tartars, or perhaps their oft- 
fpring, the Chine fe and Japoncfe. 
That thefe nations have in ancient 
times navigated to North America, 
has long been fufpeftcd(tf). This was 
lately afcertained by an ingenious 
French 
(a) De Horne. De Origin. Amer. 1652. 
b 
