Archaeology of the United States Or Sketches Historical And Bibliographical
Archaeology of the United States Or Sketches Historical And Bibliographical
Samuel F Samuel Foster Haven
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63. ) He is disposed to look for the primitive origin of the American race in the re motest periods of time. " It must be recollected as one of the fundamental points in our antiquities, that the Indian tribes are of an age that is very antique that they have occupied various parts of the continent, not only for centuries, but, probably, for scores of centuries. " (Vol. I. P. 02. ) " Where such a race may be supposed to have had their origin, history may vainly inquire. It probably broke off fr...om one of the primary stocks of the human race before history had dipped her pen in ink, or lifted her graver on stone. Herodotus is silent ; there is nothing to be learned from Sanconiathus, and the fragmentary ancients. The cuneiform and Nilotic inscriptions, the oldest in the world, are mute. Our Indian stocks seem to be still more ancient. Their languages, their peculiar idiosyncrasy, all that is pecu liar about them, denote this. " (Vol. I. Pp. 10, 17. ) " Considered in every point of view, the Indian race appears to be an old, a very old stock.
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