Asia, of those radical languages, so called because, if they were ever the same they have lost all resemblance to one another. A separation into dialects may be the work of a few ages only, but for two dialects to recede from one another till they have lost all vestiges of their common origin, must require an immense course of time; perhaps not less than many people give to the age of the earth. A greater number of those radical changes of language having taken place among the red men of America, proves them of greater antiquity than those of Asia. I will now proceed to state the nations and numbers of the Aborigines which still exist in a respectable and independent form. And as their undefined boundaries would render it difficult to specify those only which may be within any certain limits, and it may not be unacceptable to present a more general view of them, I will reduce within the form of a catalogue all those within, and circumjacent to, the United States, whose names and numbers have come to my notice. These are taken from four different lists, the first of which was given in the year 1759 to General Stanwix by George Croghan, deputy agent for Indian affairs under Sir William Johnson; the second was drawn up by a French trader of considerable note, resident among the Indians many years, and annexed to Colonel Bouquet's printed account of his expedition in 1764. The third was made out by Captain Hutchins, who visited most of the tribes, by order, for the purpose of learning their numbers in 1768. And the fourth by John Dodge, an Indian trader, in 1779, except the numbers marked*, which are from other information. 100 Mobocks river. np East side of Oneida Lake and head branches of Between the Oneidas and Onondagoes. 230 Near Onondago Lake. On the Cayuga Lake near the North branch of On the waters of Susquehanna, of Ontario and East branch of Susquehanna, and on Aughquagh. Near fort St. Joseph's and Detroit. 300 Miami river, about fort St. Joseph. *300 On the banks of the Wabash, near fort Ouiatonon. 5 Near Ciohokia. Query, If not the same with On the Illinois river, called Pianrias, but sup- 450 Near fort St. Joseph's and fort Detroit. On Saguinam bay of lake Huron. 5450 Near Michillimackinac. Near fort St. Mary's on lake Superior. Several other villages along the banks of lake Near Puans bay on lake Michigan. Within the limits of the United States. On lake Michigan, and between that and the On the eastern heads of the Mississippi, and Western parts of North-Carolina. On the Catawba river in South-Carolina. Western parts of Georgia. Alibama river, in the western parts of Georgia. |