mes.

In further support of these views, we think we have grounds for
asserting that we have veritable historical accounts of the Eskimo
people slowly retiring before the aggressions of their Indian foes. It
is no longer doubted but that Norsemen, as early as the year 1000, made
voyages of discovery along the coast of North America, as far south
as Rhode Island: they called the country Vineland. It is true that
the Icelandic accounts of these expeditions contain some foolish and
improbable statements; but so do the writings of Cotton Mather, made
many years later.

These accounts refer but very briefly to the inhabitants they saw, but
enough is given to show that the people were not Indians, but Eskimos.
The language used is: "The men were small of stature and fierce, having
a bushy head of hair, and very great eyes, and wide cheeks."<71> Their
small size is frequently referred to, which would surely not be the case
if they were describing the Algonkins that the English colonists found
in the same section of country many years later. To the same effect is
the assertion that the Eskimos did not reach Greenland until the middle
of the fourteenth century.<72> The traditions of the Tuscarawas Indians
that place their arrival on the Atlantic coast in the year 1300, also
refer to a tribe of people that were at least much like the Eskimos.<73>

Thus we are led, step by step, to the recognition of a Paleolithic Age
in America, and finally to the belief that the descendants of these
people were Eskimos. We at once notice the coincidence of these results
with some of the conclusions of Prof. Dawkins, of England, and it
is desirable to trace a little farther the points of resemblance and
difference between this age in America and in Europe. In this latter
country we have seen the Paleolithic Age can be divided into two stages,
or epochs, during which different races inhabited the country. The
first, or the epoch of the men of the River Drift, long preceded the
epoch of the Cave-men. It was those latter tribes only that Mr. Dawkins
connects with the Eskimos.

We have not yet found evidence in this country that points to such
a division of the Paleolithic Age. We have no relics of Cave-men as
distinguished from the men of the River Drift. It is true, we are not
lacking evidence of the use of caves by various tribes,<74> but there is
nothing to show that such use was very ancient, or that the people
were properly Paleolithic. We