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Cape Cod (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
Pennacook, or Pawtucket, and often afforded a refuge to the remnants of feebler nations around them. The tribe of the Massachusetts, even before the colonization of the country, had almost disappeared from the shores of the bay that bears its name; and the villages of the interior resembled insulated and nearly independent bands, that had lost themselves in the wilderness. Of the Pokanokets, who dwelt round Mount Hope, and were sovereigns over Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, and a part of Cape Cod; of the Narragansetts, who dwelt between the bay that bears their name and the present limits of Connecticut, holding dominion over Rhode Island and its vicinity, as well as a part Chap XXII.} of Long Island,—the most civilized of the northern nations; of the Pequods, the branch of the Mohegans Gookin c. II. that occupied the eastern part of Connecticut, and ruled a part of Long Island,—earliest victims to the Europeans,—I have already related the overthrow. The country between the bank<
China (China) (search for this): chapter 4
apparently for centuries, who will hope to recover the traces of the mother tongue in Siberia or China? The results of comparison have thus far rebuked, rather than satisfied, curiosity. It is st An ingenious writer on the maritime history of the De Guignes Acad. des Inscrip. t. XXVIII. Chinese, finds traces of their voyages to America in the fifth century, and thus opens an avenue for Asiatic science to pass into the kingdom of Anahuac; but the theory refutes itself. If Chinese traders or emigrants came so recently to America, there would be customs and language to give evidence ofch we daily utter. The winged word cleaves its way through time, as well as through space. If Chinese came to civilize, and came so recently, the shreds of Asiatic civilization would be still clingfrom isle to isle, might in his birch-bark canoe have made the voyage from North-West America to China. Water, ever a favorite highway, is especially the Chap XXII} highway of uncivilized man: to
South America (search for this): chapter 4
ersally were ignorant of the pastoral state; that they kept neither sheep nor kine; that they knew not the use of the milk of animals for food; that they had neither wax nor oil; that they had no iron;—it becomes nearly certain that the imperfect civilization of America is its own. Yet the original character of American culture does not insulate the American race. It would not be safe to reject the possibility of an early communication be- Lang's View of the Poly nesian Nation tween South America and the Polynesian world. Nor can we know what changes time may have wrought on the surface of the globe, what islands may have been submerged, what continents divided. But, without resorting to the conjectures or the fancies which geologists may suggest, every where around us there are signs of migrations, of which the boundaries cannot be set; and the movement seems to have been towards the east and south. The number of primitive languages increases near the Gulf of Mexico; and, a
Indiana (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
und in the wide wilderness of Illinois Marest Compare Hennepin, Tonti Joutel scarcely three or four villages. On the discovery of America, the number of the scattered tenants of the territory which now forms the states of Ohio and Michigan, of Indiana, and Illinois, and Kentucky, could hardly have exceeded eighteen thousand. In the early part of the eighteenth century, the Po- Chap. XXII.} tawatomies had crowded the Miamis from their dwellings at Chicago: the intruders came from the islalked for weeks without meeting a human being, a territory would appear densely peopled where, in every few days, a wigwam could be encountered. Vermont, and North-western Massachusetts, and much of New Hampshire, were solitudes; Ohio, a part of Indiana, the largest part of Michigan, remained open to Indian emigration long after America began to be colonized by Europeans. From the portage between the Fox and the Wisconsin to the Des Moines, Marquette saw neither the countenance nor the footste
Israel (Israel) (search for this): chapter 4
under similar circumstances. The manifest repetition of artificial peculiarities would prove a connection among nations; but all the customs consequent on the regular wants and infirmities of the human system, would be likely of themselves to be repeated; and, as for inventions and arts, they only offer new sources for measuring the capacity of human invention in its barbarous or semi-civilized state. It is chiefly on supposed analogies of customs and of language, that the lost tribes of Israel, who took II. Esdras, c XIII. v. 40-45 counsel to go forth into a farther country, where never mankind dwelt, have been discovered, now in the Boudinot, &c bark cabins of North America, now in the secluded Adair valleys of the Tennessee, and again, as the authors of Aglio's Antiquities of Mexico, vol. VI. culture, on the plains of the Cordilleras. We cannot tell the origin of the Goths and Celts; proud as we are of our lineage, we cannot trace our own descent; and we strive to identi
Plymouth, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
the Mississippi not more than eight radically distinct languages, of which five still constitute the speech of powerful communities, and three are known only as memorials of tribes that have almost disappeared from the earth. I. The primitive language which was the most widely diffused, and the most fertile in dialects, received from the French the name of Algonquin. It was the mother tongue of those who greeted the colonists of Raleigh at Roanoke, of those who welcomed the Pilgrims to Plymouth. It was heard from the Bay of Gaspe to the valley of the Des Moines; from Cape Fear, and, it may be, from the Savannah, to the land of the Esquimaux; from the Cumberland River of Kentucky to the southern bank of the Missinipi. It was spoken, though not exclusively, in a territory that extended through sixty degrees of longitude, and more than twenty degrees of latitude. The Micmacs, who occupied the east of the continent, south of the little tribe that dwelt round the Bay of Gaspe, hol
Missouri (United States) (search for this): chapter 4
from North-West America to China. Water, ever a favorite highway, is especially the Chap XXII} highway of uncivilized man: to those who have no axes the thick jungle is impervious; emigration by water suits the genius of savage life; canoes are older than wagons, and ships than chariots; a gulf, a strait, the sea intervening between islands, divide less than the matted forest. Even civilized man emigrates by sea and by rivers, and has ascended two thousand miles above the mouth of the Missouri, while interior tracts in New York and Ohio are still a wilderness. To the uncivilized man, no path is free but the sea, the lake, and the river. The American and the Mongolian races of men, on the two sides of the Pacific, have a near resemblance. Both are alike strongly and definitely marked by the more capacious palatine fossa, of which the dimensions are so much larger, that a careful observer could, out of a heap of skulls, readily separate the Mongolian and American from the Cauc
Iroquois, Wyoming (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
be environed by Algonquins than to stay in the dangerous vicinity of their own kindred. Like other western and southern tribes, their population appears of late to have greatly increased. III. The nations which spoke dialects of the Hu-Ron-Iroquois, or, as it has also been called, of the Wyandot, were, on the discovery of America, found powerful in numbers, and diffused over a wide terriory. The peninsula enclosed between Lakes Huron. Erie, and Ontario, had been the dwelling-place of thd it is that which most easily furnishes roots analogous to those of America. Not one clear coincidence has been traced beyond accident. Hard by Pamlico Sound dwelt, and apparently had dwelt for centuries, branches of the Algonquin, the Huron-Iroquois, and the Catawba families. But though Chap XXII.} these nations were in the same state of civilization, were mingled by wars and captures, by embassies and alliances; though they had a common character in the organization of their language, as
Long Island City (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
et, Martha's Vineyard, and a part of Cape Cod; of the Narragansetts, who dwelt between the bay that bears their name and the present limits of Connecticut, holding dominion over Rhode Island and its vicinity, as well as a part Chap XXII.} of Long Island,—the most civilized of the northern nations; of the Pequods, the branch of the Mohegans Gookin c. II. that occupied the eastern part of Connecticut, and ruled a part of Long Island,—earliest victims to the Europeans,—I have already related thLong Island,—earliest victims to the Europeans,—I have already related the overthrow. The country between the banks of the Connecticut and the Hudson was possessed by independent villages of the Mohegans, kindred with the Manhattans, whose few smokes once rose amidst the forests on New York Island. The Lenni Lenape, in their two divisions of the Minsi and the Delawares, occupied New Jersey, the valley of the Delaware far up towards the sources of that river, and the entire basin of the Schuylkill. Like the benevolent William Penn, the Delawares were pledged
Tombigbee River (United States) (search for this): chapter 4
the home of this restless nation of wanderers. A part of them afterwards had their cabins and their Kircheval, 53. springs in the neighborhood of Winchester. Their principal band removed from their hunting-fields in Kentucky to the head waters of one of the great rivers Lawson, 171. of South Carolina; and, at a later day, an encampment of four hundred and fifty of them, who had been straggling in the woods for four years, was found not Adair, 410. far north of the head waters of the Mobile River, on their way to the country of the Muskhogees. It was about the year 1698, that three or four score of their Logan, Mss. families, with the consent of the government of Pennsylvania, removed from Carolina, and planted themselves on the Susquehannah. Sad were the fruits of that hospitality. Others followed; and when, in 1732, the number of Indian fighting men in Pennsylvania was estimated to be seven hundred, one half of them were Shawnee emigrants. So desolate was the wilderness, th
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