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of the Oby to the shores of Lapland. Extreme cold had diminished the size of the Laplanders from what it anciently was, when they lived in more temperate climates. The Esquimaux, it would seem, are descended from the ancient Huns". 366.

"When Sir High Paliser was governor of Newfoundland, the Moravian missionaries who were sent to the Esquimaux & Hudson's bay, were understood by the people there when speaking in the Moravian language. The Moravians were a Sclavonic race, which came from Siberia and Poland, & settled upon the Danube, and to the north of it, & probably also upon the Baltic & the north of it. The Esquimaux, Labradors, & the people of Hudson's bay, & those also of unknown Sound, Oonalashky? & Prince William's sound, on the waters of the western coast of America, spoke dialects of the same language." 364

"Men of the large stature of those whose skeletons are found in Tennessee & the adjoining countries, are not produced at this day in any of these countries, nor in any part of the United States. Nor are they to be found as far to the north as Hudson's bay or beyond it. Nor in the countries northwest of the lakes, which were passed through unknown McKenzie. Nor were any such seen by Clark & Lewis; nor are they produced in any part