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intense cold of the climates; but before the occurrence of any diminution, they marched directly into unknown climate of America, which preserved their size as long as the rest of mankind retained theirs." 373.

    "Another part of them"(from those who spread themselves over the desert (see Gibbon as quoted) "it is now hardly to be doubted, issuing from the same hive, came through the gates which opens into this continent, & over the peninsula which joins the two continents together; and through the country of the Esquimaux, a part of whom came with them, to Lake Erie, the Calf Killer & the Missouri. " 374.

    " The vast number of fortifications in all parts of Tennessee, this & Kentucky, which are capable of being fortified, show that their wars with the aborigines were not immediately terminated, but were of long continuance. When these were finally ended, and theses countries wholly abandoned to them, can only be inferred from the ages of the trees which have grown upon theses fortifications since their desertion; and by these we are carried back to periods nearly 1000 years, precedent to the commencement of this century; though the last aboriginal struggle fro existence may have been several centuries later. Upon the whole, since every alphabet which ever