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Now for the Indians That are of the Indians on this continent are of Asiatic origin. I have scarcely a doubt. I saw an Asiatic in the hospital at N. Micans who so much resembled our Indians that he could have paped? for ours in any part of our country. But I doubt the propriety as much as yourself, of supposing that there was but one emigration. I am, unclear, disposed to Indiana that all of the emigrations where through Behing's Shait - that all of them travelers southwest between the rocky mountains and the sea coast to Mexico and then into the United States. From Heembott we learn that four distinct emigrations were made into Mexico. unclear: The Zoltecs - the Ihichimeca - the Nahuatlacs and the Alcalhuans. I have no unclear but that there has been seven or eight emigrations into this country - but in consequence of my ignorance of the Northern Indian I can only distinguish five. In closing this I include all the Northern tribes in the first emigration, those who unclear musionor, which I call the monumental, in the second; the Lechees, Souonokos, Dharnus Yumapel and Catabas in the third; the Hitchetus and Seminoles in the fourth and the fifth companies the Chickasaws, Choctaws, Cruts? & Cherokees. I cannot make it certain that this was the order of the emigrations, but if I had more time than I have to devote to the subject, I could make it very probable. That all of these tribes, except the monumental, had the same remote origin can hardly be doubted after an examination of this strong personal resemblance. The monumental may possibly be included, not having seen any of them I cannot decide. But that they were Asiatic can be made very probable. I do not intend to make any unclear upon the Northern Indians - I have given them but little attention. But to the Monumental I have learned for years devoted, and to very little advantage til unclear. My difficulty existed in the fact that I could uncover no starting point from which to prosecute the enquiry. I could not connect them with any people that is known in the history of the species. My difficulty has disappeared - I have established by observation a starting point - I have discovered a position from which we can contemplate them with interest. I am now prepared to show that the Natchez Indians - the Attackapas, the Chinooks (at the mouth of the Columbia river and western slope of the rocky mountains) the Chichimicas and probably the Lotucs of Mexico, the Peruvians, the Hispaniolians, and the Monumentals of America were all the same people, no matter whence they originated. I regret that I have not the leisure to give you all the evidence I have attained on this subject. That which I have observed I will briefly give you. On the farm of Cdo. Bingiman, two and a half miles from Natchez, unclear in a slight unclear of earth, called a Maund and regarded as artificial by those who live in the vicinity of it, but I could not so regard it. I discerned four skeletons which I consider to be of the Natchez Indians. They were extended at full length, the right arm extended by the side and the left hand placed across the breast. French beads, buttons, and grass?, brass and iron rings, with some of their own idampum? beads and pottery, of a good finish, also pipes, made of red stiatite, were found with them. From these skeletons I obtained two crania so well preserved as to admit