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’tis obvious to every common Observer, that this Story is founded upon the History of the Israelites Departure from Egypt, and their wandering in the Wilderness before the came to the Land of Canaan; so that this Story must either be a Forgery of the…

The civilization of the Mexicans and Peruvians, as well as their populousness, make it extremely probable that they were the first inhabitants of America. In travelling northward, the people are more and more ignorant and savage: the Esquimaux, the…

1. The Americans descended from different nations, or from different families dispersed after the confusion of tongues. No person will doubt of the truth of this who has any knowledge of the multitude and great diversity of the American languages. In…

Mais dès les premiers tems, l´or qui coula à grands flots du Pérou et du Mexique dans le sein de la monarchie espagnole, et fit la premère, la plus riche du monde, et lui inspira l´ambitieux projet d´asservir l´Europe entière.

Mr. Kirkland observes, that there are similar vestiges of ancient fortified towns throughout the extensive territories of the Six Nations, and, by Indian report, in various other parts, and particularly on a branch of the Delaware river, which appear…

When was America Peopled? That America was peopled very anciently and soon after the flood, is very probable: 1. Because the aboriginal Americans, till they became acquainted with Europeans, were ignorant of those arts and inventions, such, among…

Gemelli adds, that the Mexicans do not pretend to know when these Pyramids were erected; and Dr. Siguenza, a learned Spaniard, looks upon them to be almost as ancient as the Flood. Certain it is, says my Author, there was formerly a great City where…

According to their Traditions, these Pyramids were built by the Ulmeco’s, a People which came by the Sea from the East; which gave some Europeans reason to conjecture, they were Colonies of the Egyptians and Carthaginians, who sometimes joined their…

The Toltecas are the oldest nation of which we have any knowledge, and that is very imperfect. Being banished, as they tell us, from their own country Huehuetapallan, which we take to have been in the kingdom of Tollan, from which they derived their…