never known an author fail of finding a sufficient number of etymologies, customs, and ceremonies, to support the particular idea, which he has started or espoused. Though there may be ten dissimilarities for one resemblance, and though that one resemblance be imperfect and obscure, the novelty of a beautiful hypothesis eclipses all other considerations; and tribes, which can hardly be said to have a single thing in common, are pronounced to be branches of the same people.

Solinus mentions a nation of Asiatics, called the Apalaèi; and, in Herodotus, we read of the Massagetæ, in the neighbourhood of the Caspian Sea. The former are found in the Apalachi of Florida; the latter in the Mazaticæ of New Spain, and the Massachusitæ of New England. Ptolemy speaks of the Tabieni; and the Tambi were an ancient nation of Peru. The Cunadani inhabited the north of Asia; and there was a city in Upper Hungary, called Chunad. No person, therefore, could mistake the derivation of Canada. The Chonsuli about Nicaragua are identified with the Hunni, or Chuni; and the Parii of Scythia are supposed to have named the South American region of Paria. The Hurons are a branch of the Huyrones, who live in the neighbourhood of the Moguls. The Olopali of Florida, the Nepi of Trinidad, and the Iroquois, of the north, are the same with

the Parii, the Nepi, and the Iryce of Herodotus. The Moguls are the progenitors of the Tomogali and Mogoles about the River La Plata; and how nearly do the Choten, Baita, and Tangur, of Great Tartary, resemble the Coton of Chili, and the Paita and Tangora of Peru? The Japanese are found under both their appellations. The Chiapanecæ about Nicaragua retain their common name; and the Zipangri of Hispaniola, the one, which was given them by the Tartars. The word Sacks is one synonime of the Celts; and there is a tribe of Indians, who have the same name, to a letter. The Abydos of the Greeks has since been called Nagara; and our Niagara corresponds with it, both in name and situation.

The Peruvians think, they descended from one Mancu; and there are Manchew Tartars. The natives of Virginia and Guatimala are said to have a tradition concerning Madoc; and his name has been detected as a part of the Guatimalan Matoc-Zunga and MatInga. The double L of the Spanish is said to have been derived from the Mexicans,* who took it from the Welsh; and, when the Dutch first carried to Europe a bird, which they found at the Straits of Magellan, and which the natives called Penguin, the Welsh

* It is a little singular, that, while the Mexicans are said to have two l's, the Cherokees cannot pronounce one. BARTON'S New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America. Phil. 1797, p. xliv.

discovered, that, with the aptest correspondence to its description, the same word, in their own language, signified White-head. The words gurando, to hearken, corroeso, an island, and guyndor, a river, have all been found among the natives of America; and are all known to be genuine words in the old British or Welsh. Many other similarities have been discovered; and one author has written a book for no other

pur

pose, than to prove the identity of the languages spoken

by the ancient Britons and the natives of Darien.*

The evidence in favour of the Hebrews, is, perhaps, still more plausible. The greater part of the similar words have been recently arranged in columns;† and perhaps it is the most convenient mode of exhibiting the subject to the reader.

Star in the West; or, A Humble Attempt to discover the long lost Tribes of Israel, &c. By ELIAS BOUDINOT, L. L. D. Trenton, N. J. 1816. Dr. Boudinot is mistaken, if he supposes this to be the first appearance of the star in the West. It was seen, at least, in the year 1650. See THOROWGOOD'S Jews in America; or, Conjectures concerning the origin of the American Indians. Lond. And L'ESTRANGE'S Americans no Jews; or an Answer to THOROWGOOD'S Conjectures.

ENGLISH.. CHARIBBEE. CREEKS. and Northern HEBREW.

But by far the most elaborate treatise, on this subject, has been written by another countryman of ours; who has undertaken to prove, that the languages spoken in both Americas are radically one, and the same with those of the various nations, which are known by the general name of Tartars.* It was impolitic in the author, to regret, that he could not make his tables more complete; for it seems to us, that they are already so full as to overturn the hypothesis, which they were designed to support. That a few plausible coincidences have been found, there can be no doubt;

* BARTON'S New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America. Phil. 1797.