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North-Carolina Chronicle or5
IKo- 19, of Vol. II.
U O N D A Y, J N U A R T 17,
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Fdyetteville Gazette
1791,
Total No-. 71.
HISTORY.
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CARVEPJs TRAVELS.
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THE Flerhifli author then return to
the Scythians, between whom xad
the Americans he draws a parallel. He
cbfoTves that feveral nations of them to
the Ncih of the Cafpian Sea led a wan
dering iifc ; which, ai well as many
"ether of their cuftoms, and way: of living,
agrees, in many circumftancisj with the
Indians or America, And though the
:efmblances arenot aVfolutcly perfect,
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their own country, difTcted from each
oth'f, and went not by the lame name.
Their change of abode afie&ed what rc-
mair.ed. . . ..) . - '
He further fays, that a ftrnflar like
refs cxiils between feveral Amciican na
tions, and the Sarnoeides who are fettled,
recording to the "Ruffian accounts,: on
the gieat River Oby. And it is more
natural, continues he, to fcjpofe that
Colonics of thefe nations pafted over to
Amtiicaby crcfling the icy fep on their
f-edecs, than for the Norwegians to tra-
- vcl all the way that Croiius has marked
ciJMr ihcm.
This v liter makes many, o:her re
mark. thatare equally fenlible, aad
wfiich appear tobe jul't ; but he inter
mixes with thefe foc.e that arc not fo
well iounded. . 1
! 'nianuel de Moraez, a Portnguezer
in his hi.torv of F.iail, aiTcrts that Ame
rica lias been wholly peopled, by the Car
tlugenians arid lfrarlir.es. He brings as
a proof of tlis affrti'-n the cifcoveries
'. til-.: frrrcer are kno-vn :o have made at a
jea' di. lance beyord the coa(l cf Africa.
Th prcgre s of which bdn put a. Hop to
b the fmatc of Carthage,' thofe -.-ho
happened ro be then in the newly dh'co
vered cou-itri?sr bei'jr cut.'otF from all
.cemmuniatr'n v.rh iheir countrymen,
ar.1 .'clliruteof m-ny r.eccflaries of life,
;Yil into a Pate of barbarian.: As to the.
.i;;idi:es, tins author thinks that cctlur.g
lut circnmcifion is wanted ia order tF
contiitutea perfect refemblance between
them: and the B-azilians.
Georre De Hornn. a learned Dutch
roan, has likewife written on his fubjecl.
. xic lets eut with dccJaung, that lie does
not believe it poflible America could havi
been peopled before the flood, confiderj
ing the i'hbrt fpace of time which . clapfj
cd between the creation of the world and
that incmbrable event. In the next plac js
he lays it doVn as a principle, that after
the, deluge, men and other terreftial an
imals penetrated into that country both
by feaand land ; fome through accidenjt
and, bme from a formed derign. That
birds fjot thither by , flight, which their
were enabled to do 'by refting on thp
jocks and IHands that are fcattefed abcu-t
in. the. ocean. , ; ' ' ,J
He further obfervesj-that wild bealts
may hate found a free paffa'ge by land ;
and that if we do not meet with horfes
orcalttle(co which he might have ade
elephants, camels, rhinoceros, and beafljs
of many other kinds) it is becaufe thoije
natrons that paiTcd thither, were .either
not acquainted with their ufc, or had no
convenience to trahfport them.
Having totally excluded manynatior.s
that others have admitted as theprob.iUe
fi r ft fc filers cf Amciica, for which l e
gives fubllantial realens,iie fuppoies that
itbe'gantobe peopled by the noith, arid
maintains that the primitive colon its
fprcad thtmfelvcs by means of the ifth
mus'tf Panama through the vhcle cl
ient of the continent. j
He believes that the flrfl four.cers f
the Indian colonics weie fcythrar.!:.-j-That
the Phoenicians and Carthagenijis
afnards got fcctir.g in Afjenca acroji's
the AtrarvUcOccan, and theChir-efe ly
way of the raeific. And that other na
ticr.s might fromtiire to time have land
ed thereby ( r.e or other ?f thefe Vfays,.
or might p.-flibly have been thrown jn
the ecafc by tcrapefts: fir.ee thrcugh the
whole extent cf that comment, boi in
its northern and icuthern pa:ts,c nest
. 1 : o.L. it n m Tiire r.
lbs to-rthcrn nations with thofe v. ho ha
come from other places. ; And laftiy,
that lonit jews and Chritlians might
have been carried there by fuch like
events, but that this muft happened at a j
time when the whole of the new world;
was already peopled." 1 5
Af ter all, he acknowledges that great
difficulties attend the determination of
the qaeftijcm. Thefe, he fays, are occafi
oncd in the firft place by the imperfect
knowledge we have of" the extremetics of
the globe, towards trie north and fouth
pole ; and in the next place to the havoclc;
which the Spaniards, the firft difcoverers
'of the new world,, made among its moll
ancient mbnuments j aswitnefs the great
double road betwixt Quito and Cuzco, an
undertaking fo ftupenduous, that even the
mod magnificent of thofe executed by the
Romans cannot be compared to it.
He fuppofes alfc another migration of
the Phoenecians, than thofe already men
tioned, to have taken place v and; this
was during a three years voyage made
by the Tyriah fleet in the fervice of king
Solomon. He aflerts on the authority
cf Jofephus', that the port at which this
embarkation was made, lay in the Medit
erranean. The fleet, he adds, went in
queft of elephants teeth and peacocks, to
the wedcrn coafl of Africa, which is; Tar
fiuY; Then to Ophir for gold, which is
Haive, or the ifland of Hifpaniola ; and
in the latter .opinion he is fupported by
Columbus, who, when he difcovered
Lif ( jt( tVimnrhr he could trace the
Vi4aw auw&awj .
furnaces in which the gold was refined, j
To thefe emigrations, which preceded
the Chriaian sera, he adds many other of j
si later date from different nations, biit '
th-:fe I have not time to enumerate. For
the fame reafon I am obliged to paO over j
numberlefs wiiters on this fabjeel, anjd
fhall content m'yfelf v.ith giving the 'fen- i
timents cf tvi ocr three more. ,
The firft of ihcfe is Pierre de .Charte
vcix, a Frenctean, who in his journal of a-;
voyage to North America, made fo late-
ly as the ' year- has itcapiiulated ;
the opinions cf a varie'.y of authoi s cm
this head, to which he has. fu3inci his!
cm ccrjtSurss. ut t!:; ltc; i..nws