. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . ringStrait, which now communicate with each other freely, musthave done the same from very early times. They neededno consent of sovereigns to do it: they were not obliged towait humbly in the antechamber of some king, suing for per-mission to discover for him another world. This we mustrecognize at the outset; but when it is granted, we are stillupon the threshold. Concede that America is but an outlyingAsia, it does not follow that America was peopled from Asia;the course of population ma
. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . ringStrait, which now communicate with each other freely, musthave done the same from very early times. They neededno consent of sovereigns to do it: they were not obliged towait humbly in the antechamber of some king, suing for per-mission to discover for him another world. This we mustrecognize at the outset; but when it is granted, we are stillupon the threshold. Concede that America is but an outlyingAsia, it does not follow that America was peopled from Asia;the course of population may first have gone the other it may be that the human race had upon each continentan autochthonous or indigenous place, according as we prefera hard Greek word or a hard Latin word to express the simplefact that a race comes into existence on a certain soil, instead THE FIRST AMERICANS. 25 of migrating thither. Migrations, too, in plenty riiay in thiscase have come afterwards, and modified the type, giving to itthat Asiatic or Mongoloid cast which is now acknowledgedby almost all INDIAN VASE FOUND IN VERMONT. How long may this process of migration and minglinghave gone on upon the American continent} Who can tell}Sir John Lubbock, a high authority, says not more than threethousand years; but it is not so easy to fix a limit. To besure, some evidences of antiquity that are well established inEurope are as yet wanting in America, or at least imperfectlyproved. In the French bone-caves there have been found un-questionable representations of the mammoth scratched onpieces of its own ivory, and exhibiting the shaggy hair andcurved tusks that distinguish it from all other is as yet no such direct and unequivocal evidence inAmerica of the existence of man during the interglacial period. 26 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. The alleged evidence, as given in the books up to the presenttime, fails to satisfy the more cautious archaeologists. Theso-called
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