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part of America, north of the southern frontiers of Chili. That they came hither from countries south of Chili, is barely possible. The distance is between 5000 & 6000 miles. Whence then have they come & at what period?" 366.

"The large skeletons we are speaking of, came from Scythia, the ancient country of giants; not from the northern nations of Europe, between the Danube & the Baltic, the Rhine & the ocean; but from some part of Asiatic Tartary, where the climate is temperate, & congenial to the growth of human beings; from some climate between the 36th & 50th of north latitude; where the people have not the flaxen hair and blue eyes of the Gauls, Germans, Goths, Vandals and Franks. Nor being able to bear the heat of a southern sun, they have stopped their conquests at the Mississippi and Natchez, & the countries adjacent to them, on the west. This was done before the influence of climate, and change of seasons all over the world, had reduced the human stature from its ancient gigantic bulk, to the ordinary stature of the men of this day." 367

"The Sclavonians are of the Tartar race, which came from the ancient Scythians. They have emigrated to America on the eastern side and have planted a language on the north-east & northwest of