The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-01-22
WBLCR INDIANS.

circulation and ,one credit, OF there BENG fTi5e OF
Jans in the irtezor parts Of this continent who are
rte defendants Of the ancert W-leh That this ru-
has eoPleatly expired; that there are even
fome ipecious circumstances and fome credible Wit
neGes to give plauGbty and colorring even the
preient period can heitste to believe, who
perufes the following letter from very intelligent
etzen of Kentucky
There was a time, however, when this rumour en-
braced zoidr circle of explanation and conjecture.
There was time when the speculative antiquarian,
unafiited by the lights of authentic hlory, and milf
guided by the tenets of uncertain tradition, was
willing to admit that the frH germ of all the abort
snes of North America originally tranfplanted
from the mountains of Wales: and that the various
tribes of Northern Indians however diltinguifhed
from each other by their abode, their language, their
cuhonns their colour, all of them defended
from Jingle fettlement of the antient Cambrians.-
Probably this of the earel fpeculstons that
formed the colonization of our continent; GER
tant siswas of thoe fugitive rumours which was
believed and refuted more thar, $50 years ago The
following extract from lrr,a collection of manufcript
letters, written in this fate about the year 1876 is
fuicent to fhow that fuch a ruinour had prevailed
before that carly period. Thefe letters were
principally written by Ann Cotton, who, condering
the age and the country in which fhe lived mutt have
been woman Of the mott extraordinary endowments
ard il was from this collection that the Editor ex-
traced, few months paA, his fecond of the
progyers and termination of Bacon's Rebellion.
1t is not only to demonftra,e the exence of fuch
1t that early day but it is to fhew in what
rea the curious reearches of the antiquarian to the
nloa authentic record of this conjecture and its proofs
that the following extract preen,ed to the Rpefi-
on Of our readers
Put that which would eheifely inform the eE-
euire Of this, that of all the markes, he hath ex
hibited unto the world, rs Imputed evidences to
prove that the Indians in thoie parts OF American
defended from the Cambrians, cannot find one
IN Ill this time have bin in the couutrey though
have made diegent inquifltion, and ltria hew &
cry after them, by the ahn-.ce Of an Indian inter
prefer, named Garvis Davis borne in Wales and for
fome time did live arnongf the Indians for the ob.s:e
Ig there language or fpeech: there being not any
Dei!t, toWleS 10 OGnOnlated
the efquire has bin informed. And although there
are veral birds, with white heads, yet doth not the
indians ea any OF them by the of Pengwins no
more than they do Fox L Lunoc. heather is there
any annallogye in there fpeech with the Brittanes
Gather IN there pronunciation in the accentny
of there words the Indians las have heard it iade)
coming more neare to the French, in the dioin of
there pAech and lofty file; net twiaing nor whor-
ing there words in the threste, as the Weiih doe
1t is eerraine that the Indian tongue isnot Lam
guage, but Speech, compounded of1everal dyaeas;
but TO as that they cannot be deduaed from any
Common entire original language: infoemuch that
of 20 ievsrall nations that may be in thefe north
parts Of Americay there is that understands
rothe5 further than they have gained knowledge BY
Commerce trade
And as nothins doth arpeare by the Indian tongue
that they are the offspring Of the Brttans heather
doth there by there Perions difpoitons, nor COM
pleetions the laf making point blanke aganlt that
opinion they being of dark olive compexon there |
hare long, SLACK, traite, without GRIPPE curle |
which is the common complexion of all the Indians,
that nhabt America, from the lraits Of Magellania
which lies in 81 degrees iouth Latitude (as nerca-
tors carde doth inform Ine) upon the Coaf Of Terra
deii rngn tn-SI de;srees, North Latitude which
comprehend me Torrid, temperate and frgid Zones
in which heather the extremity of heate nor cold !
makes any difference in the natives complications
which therefore cannot be referred TO the Latitude
or petition oil the heavens, under which they DO live
but rather TO the feed, or race froa whence they
fprung; and from whence that may be, is HARD
matter determine, though Tome doe think, that it
mighs be at iirf, from the people Of the Philippi-
an Hands from ths iorth parts of Alta but GER
tarely think it cannot be, that they defended from
any one particular part OF the world but rather from
great many parts, if DO but conlder there d.
verify of Tongues.
But that the Indians ihuud in thefe parts of Anne
RIGA be defended from the Welll (as Mr.. Howell |
faith in his EPiitocr HGii@nu) cannot think and
tor thee reaions; THAI when the difference was
competed between the wo Brtifh princes (NIaddoc &
his Brother b. the voluntary exile Of the younger
(Lullg rank us name was) ard lome prime men,
hts abeters, and that they fayed nro foreign parts
there iettled heuiislves * that America nuh be the
place he planted in, il cannot be imagined but
that tradition, word have 70 much befrended poite-
ritz as 70 have imprinted tome markes footGcps by
which wee might have Gas by clew,) followed or
found out the truth of the matter but doubtles there
IS nothg repianeins to tlat PnrPofe; heather by the
Ian ,uage nor names Of the Adventures switch would
no have been utterly Ion in fucceedirg generations
than the Troans lo Tiers in Latiuni, as the
Roman Filtosys inform
TO THE EDITOR OF THE KENTUCKY
PALLADIUM.
Fraakf6yf, I2tb Deeem5er, 1904.
SIR,