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of America, so evidently identified in its origin with that of the Moravians, spoken to this day in the northern parts of Europe, as to leave no doubt that all those, both in America & Europe, who speak it, were people whose original parentage was one& the same, namely, tribes of Scythians, from the confines of China to the shores of Lapland, & from the Dunube to Kamlchatka?. But not the same with the Hindoos, Persians, Chinese, Thibetans & Japanese, who came to the equatorial parts of America, and from thence extended their settlements towards the lakes of Canada & the river Savannah, till met by emigrants from the north, who passed through the original settlement of those people, in their present abodes, & long since their climate had caused their degeneracy from the size of ancient stock. They came, perhaps, though the same passage that the Esquimaux formerly did, taking with them some of the latter, either willingly or by compulsion, and made them compose a part of their retinue, and buried them in white White County (Tennessee), in the lakes of Canada, and in the state of Missouri." 365.

"The Huns" (mingled with the ten tribes) - "were not these the nations which came to America, bringing with them from the Irtish & from the plains of Sag-