| FL661356[marginalia crossed out]
To [word crossed out] trace certain resemblances amongst them [words crossed out]
[words crossed out] to some of the American tribes.
But in all probability they came originally
from Asia & might have been a mixed
& somewhat degenerate race then, [words crossed out] There is
between the Atlantic & the Indian Ocean
a chain of [word crossed out] numerous islands, we may
say, more than one chain connecting [word crossed out]
Australia with [words crossed out] India & other parts of Asia [word crossed out]
[word crossed out] There is, for instance New Guinea
the Celebes, the Phillipines & Caroline islands & Borneo [word crossed out]
nearer still we find [word crossed out] connecting links
of islands such as Timor, Java, Sumatra
leading close to
& the Malay Peninsula [word crossed out] with some smaller ones in-
tervening, the difficulty would not be great to come here by this [indecipherable]
Nor is the distance so great
from Africa by way of Madagascar &
the Mauritians as to render it impossible [word crossd out] that
some propitious winds might have driven
some boats or canoes in safety to these shores.
And thus if in no other way we might account
for the [words crossed out] African admix-
ture [word crossed out] supposed to exist in some of the
islands & partly in Australia. Whether the
orginal inhabitants, left their [word crossed out] former
country [words crossed out] from necessity in search of
new habitations, or by accident over-
ruled by Providence to people this country
| FL661356[marginalia crossed out]
To [word crossed out] trace certain resemblances amongst them [words crossed out]
[words crossed out] to some of the American tribes.
But in all probability they came originally
from Asia & might have been a mixed
& somewhat degenerate race then, [words crossed out] There is
between the Atlantic & the Indian Ocean
a chain of [word crossed out] numerous islands, we may
say, more than one chain connecting [word crossed out]
Australia with [words crossed out] India & other parts of Asia [word crossed out]
[word crossed out] There is, for instance New Guinea
the Celebes, the Phillipines & Caroline islands & Borneo [word crossed out]
nearer still we find [word crossed out] connecting links
of islands such as Timor, Java, Sumatra
leading close to
& the Malay Peninsula [word crossed out] with some smaller ones in-
tervening, the difficulty would not be great to come here by this [indecipherable]
Nor is the distance so great
from Africa by way of Madagascar &
the Mauritians as to render it impossible [word crossd out] that
some propitious winds might have driven
some boats or canoes in safety to these shores.
And thus if in no other way we might account
for the [words crossed out] African admix-
ture [word crossed out] supposed to exist in some of the
islands & partly in Australia. Whether the
orginal inhabitants, left their [word crossed out] former
country [words crossed out] from necessity in search of
new habitations, or by accident over-
ruled by Providence to people this country
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