eople, and that animosity which exists among so many of their
tribes."

After remarking on the similarity which exists between the Chinese and
Indians, in the singular custom of shaving or plucking out the hair
leaving only a small spot on the crown of the head; and the
resemblance in sound and signification which many of the Chinese and
Indian words bear to each other, he proceeds, "After the most critical
inquiry and mature deliberation, I am of opinion that America received
its first inhabitants from the northeast, by way of the islands
mentioned as lying between Asia and America. This might have been
effected at different times and from different parts: from Tartary,
China, Japan or Kamschatka, the inhabitants of these countries
resembling each other, in color, feature and shape."

Other writers on this subject, coinciding in opinion with Carver,
mention a tradition which the Indians in Canada have, that foreign
merchants clothed in silk formerly visited them in great ships: these
are supposed to have been Chinese, the ruins of Chinese ships having
been found on the American coast. The names of many of the American
kings, are said to be Tartar; and Tartarax, who reigned formerly in
Quivira, means the Tartar. Manew, the founder of the Peruvian empire,
most probably came from the Manchew Tartars. Montezuma, the title of
the emperors of Mexico, is of Japanese extraction; for according to
some authors it is likewise the appellation of the Japanese Monarch.
The plant Ginseng, since found in America, where the natives termed
it Garentoguen, a word of the same import in their language, with
Ginseng in the Tartar, both meaning THE THIGHS OF A MAN.

Dr. Robertson is decidedly of opinion, that the different tribes of
American Indians, excepting the Esquimaux, are of Asiatic extraction.
He refers to a tradition among the Mexicans of the migration of their
ancestors from a remote country, situated to the north-west of Mexico,
and says they point out their various stations as they advanced into
the interior provinces, which is precisely the route they must have
held, if they had been emigrants from Asia.

Mr. Jefferson, in his notes on Virginia, says, that the passage from
Europe to America was always practicable, even to the imperfect [24]
navigation of the ancient times; and that, from recent discoveries, it
is proven, that if Asia and America be separated at all it is only by
a narrow streight. "Judging from the resemblan