. Carver's travels in Wisconsin [microform] : from the third London edition. Chippewa Indians; Botany; Zoology; Ojibwa (Indiens); Botanique; Zoologie. f [ 133 ] Ho ^oos on to ohsorvp, that iliowirli there are few wild beasts to he met with in North Anu'rica, except a kind of ti- gers without spots, which are found in the country of the Iroquoisc, yet towards the tropics there are lions and real tigers, which, noiwiihstandinir, nu^ht have come from Hyr- cania and Tartary ; for as by advancinir gradually southward they met with climates more agreeable to their natures, they have in time abandone
. Carver's travels in Wisconsin [microform] : from the third London edition. Chippewa Indians; Botany; Zoology; Ojibwa (Indiens); Botanique; Zoologie. f [ 133 ] Ho ^oos on to ohsorvp, that iliowirli there are few wild beasts to he met with in North Anu'rica, except a kind of ti- gers without spots, which are found in the country of the Iroquoisc, yet towards the tropics there are lions and real tigers, which, noiwiihstandinir, nu^ht have come from Hyr- cania and Tartary ; for as by advancinir gradually southward they met with climates more agreeable to their natures, they have in time abandoned the northern countries. lie(|Uotes both .Solinus and I'liny to prove that the Scyth- ian Anthropophagi once depopulated a great extent of coimtry, as far as the promontory Tabin ; and also an author of later date, Mark l*ol, a Venetian, who, he says, tells us, that to the north-east of China and Tartary there are vast uninhab- ited countries, which might be suilicient to confirm any con- jectures concerning the retreat of a great number of Scyth- ians mto America. To this he adds, that we iind m the antients the names of some of these nations. Pliny speaks of the Tabians ; Soli- nus mentions the Apuleans, who had for neighbours the Massagetes, whom Pliny since assures us to have entirely disappeared. Ammianus Marcellinus expressly tells us, that the fear of the Anthropophagi obliged several of the inhabi- tants of those countries to take refuge elsewhere. From all these authorities Mons. Charlevoix concludes, that there is at least room to conjecture that more than one nation in Amer- ica had a Scythian or Tartarian original. He finishes his remarks on the authors he has quoted, by the following observations : It appears to me that this con- troversy may be reduced to the two following articles ; first, how the new world might have been peopled ; and secondly, by whom, and by what means it has been peopled. Nothing, he asserts, may be more easily answered than the first. Amer
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