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H E No rth I Carolina Chro nick ; or, Fayettevilk N. 22, of Vol. II. j MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, U9I. BISTORT. CARVER'S TRAVELS. j Continued.) TTT rrif in? nt of .A meriea-.a; farsc X wejcaa ju Jjjc from all the refearch- c: tr.i-tnavc ocsiiniae near me i-oies, a,.p-:rs t i ert'ireiy feparated from ,the otiUi-qtiaric. s 11 uic Trunu.-- a r:at pare ot Europe winch approiclies nearelt to it, i the I coart of Greenland, lying in aijtvat feventy decrees of north latitude : and which re ches Tvihia tr elve degrees crhe coait oi Labrador, fi:uale'd on the ro t. eait to(dtrs ot ine continent. This f!aft of Guiaca W the neareft part of Atrica; which J iei about eighteen hun dred and fixty miis north-ealt from the Brazils. The. moil eaftern coatt of A Ma, vrhich -extends to the Korean fea on the nortn ot j China, projects north eaft through eaftern Tartary and Kamfchat- Liand Siberia, in about fix ty degrees of lorth latitude; Towards whick the wettern caafts of America, from Califor nia to thej ltraights of Ahriian, extend nrarly north-weft, and lie in about forty fix I'tgrces of the fame latitude. Whether, the continent of America -flret;hes any farther north than thefe? Araights, and joins to the eaftern parts of Atb, agreeably to what has been affert td by fome of the writeis Ihave quoted, cr vhetherjthe lands -that have been idii covsred in the intermediate parts are n 1' an archipelago of iflands: verging to wards the oppoiite continent, is not yet afceitainedj It being, IhoweTer, certain that there are many confiderable iflands which-lie, feetwten the extremeties of Alia and Amciica, viz. Japcn, Yefo or Jcdfo,' Gaina's Land, Behring's I fie, with ma-: ay ethers difcovcred by Tfchirikow, and 5tSes:hefe, frcm fifty. degrees north there appearing to be a clutter, of iflands that reach as far as Siberia, it is proba- iVom tlieir proximity to- America, tlutit received its. fir A inhabitants from jucxn, . This conclufion is the moil rational 'I I am able todraT,fuppofingthat"fince,the j aborigines got tooting on this continent, j no extraordinary or fudden change in j tnc pofition or furface cf it has taken j plce, from inundations, earthquakes, or I ajy revolution of die earth that we are at prel'cnt unacquainted with, j To me it appears highly improbable that it Ihould hare been peopled fr om dif ! ferent quarters y acrofs the Ocean, as j others have aifcrted. Fiom the fize of tne lhips made ufe of inthofe early ages, and the want of the, compafs, it cannot be fuppofed that any maritime nation wouia by choice venmre over the unfa thomable ocean in fearch of diftajit comi nenta. Had this however been .attempt ed, or had America been firit acridemal- ly peopled from Ihips freighted with pafv j fengers of both fexes, which were dnverr by itrong eafterly winds acrois the atlajj- lie, thefe fcttlers mulv have retained fome I traces mf the language of the country from : j whence they migrated; and tfjis fince j the difcovtry of it by the Euiopeans muft Ihave been ad,e out. - It. alfa' appears ! extraordinary that feveral of trjefc acci dental migrations, as allowed lny fome, and thefe from different parts, mould ihave.taken place. Upon the whole, after the moll criti- -leal enquiries, and the matureft deliberati ion, I am cf opinion, That America re ceived its liril inhabitants from the north- -eaft, by way of the great archipe ago jurb (mentioned, and frcm thefe aione. But -this might have been effe&e at different -Itimes, and from various parts : from jTartary, China, Jspon, or: Kamfchatky, , the inhabitants ot thefe places refembiing each other in colour, features, andftiape ; land who, before fome of them acquired ,a knowledge cf the arts ard ixiences, 'might have likewife refembled each c:her in their manners, cuftoms, religicr, language. . I The only difference between the Chi nefe nation and the Tartars, iits in the coltivateiftate of the one, and the unpo-. lifhed fituation of the other, Theform er have become a coiaiiierciai people, Total No- 74. and dwell in houfes formed into regular rowns and cities ;. the latter live chietfv i ri tents, and rove about in different hords', irhout any fixrd abooe. Nor can the long and bloody v.rs thefe two nations iave been engaged ia, exterminate their hereditary fimiiitude. rlhe prefent fa mily of ihe Chinele emperors is of a Tar sal ian extraction ; and if they -were not ienhble of fome claim befides thiat of con ueft, fo numercut a pcopfe would not lit quiet under the dominion offtran-' gcrs. ,j j It is very evident that fome of the1 manners and c-jftoms of the American Indians refen ble thofe tf the Tartars ; and I make no doubt but in fome f uture sjra, aad this not a diliant one, it will be TJeduced to a certainty that duiirg feme cjf the wars betweep tht Tartars and the 4?iiinefe, a part of the inhabit ar.ts of the lorthera provinces were driven frcm t leir native country, ar.d took reh ;e i;i lome cf the iilzs before mentioned, and from thence f'.und their way into America.-- At different pericds each na t or. might prove victorious, and the con quered by t urns fly before j.heir conquer ors j and from hence might arife the fi miiitude of the Indians to all thefe peo pe, and that aiiimo 15? y which exifts be tween 16 many of their tribe. ' It appears plainly to me that a great lijmilaiity between the Indian and Chi nee, is ccnipicuGUs in that particular cufterri of fhairg or plucking eff the ; hkhi and leaving enly a fnrall tuft on the crewn cf the head. This mode is faid to have betn er-joiRed by the Tartarian emperors on ti er; acceflion to the throne ct China, and ctr.f quently is a farther free f that this cui-c.n was. in ufe ampFg thje-Tartars to wh m,' as' well as (the Criinefc, the Amciicar-s might be indebt eq for it. " "Msny words alio are vtfcS both byf the CLir.tfc arc Indians, vhich have 2 rc- feft.blance'tc each e:her,not only h: their frucd, hut their iirificaticr. The Chi nte call a fliive. fiurgo ; and the Nau crwcille Ii.c. 21 s. vrhofc larguace Ircm tLix little interc curie with the i.nrcp- I V I if r
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