. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . s. These . Distribution of have a wide reach of terri- the Algonquintory from east to west, and aim yno narrow band of country from northto south. We can observe in their dis-tribution the same phenomenon whichhas already been noted in the Esquimaux,nam e
. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . s. These . Distribution of have a wide reach of terri- the Algonquintory from east to west, and aim yno narrow band of country from northto south. We can observe in their dis-tribution the same phenomenon whichhas already been noted in the Esquimaux,nam el v, a tendency of the tribes withthe eastern spread to drop further andfurther to the south. This movement,conforming to the isothermal lines,brought the Eastern Algonquins into thecountries south of the Great Lakes asfar as Carolina, while the West Algon-quins, lying far off against the AlaskanTinnehs, reached up as high as the 55 thparallel of north latitude. Eastward and westward the distribu-tion extends from the Rocky mountainsto the Atlantic. It is needless to re-mind the reader that the Eastern Algon-quins, as far west at least as the 90thmeridian, have almost totally disap-peared before the pressure of the Whiterace, and have obtained a new and pre-carious footing either with their westerncongeners or in the Indian LAND OF THE ALGONQUINS.—Rocky Mountain Landscape.—Drawn by Pelcoq, from a sketch by Borgeau. 408 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. The attempt has been made to divide the whole Algonquin family into four groups, or tribes. The first Division of the Aigonquins into ot these, and the one mime-groupt diately before us from the point of our observation in the North-
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