North-Carolina Chronicle; or Fayetteville Gazette

              t ii e north carolina chronicle \ or 5 fayeitevilk gazette monday january 17 1791 no i 9)o fvol.ii total nc 71 but circumcifion is van d ia order to contlkute a perftel icfemblancc between them and the iv u/jlians george de hornn * learned dutch man has likewiie written on his fubjecl he lets eut with declaring that he does noc believe it pofiiblc america could have been peopled before the hood confider ing the ihort fpace of time which elapf cd between the creadon of the world and that memorable event in the next place he lays it do'wn as a principle hat after the deluge men and otber terreftial am imals penetrated into chat country both by fcannd land ; fome through accident and forne from a formed dehgn that birds got thi:her by flight which they were enabled to do by refting on the locks and iiunds that are icattefed about in the ocean he further obferves that v.ild beads may hate found a free pafiltge by land ; and that if we do not meet with horfes come from other places and laftly that ibmt jaws p.nj chriilians might have been carried there by iuch like events but that this muft happened at a time when the whole of the aew world was already peopled after all he acknowledges that great difficulties attend the determination of the quteftio,n thefe he fays are occafi oncd in the firft place by the imperfeft knowledge we have of the extremeties of the globe towards the north and fouth pole ; and in the next place to the havock which the spaniards the firft difcoversrt of the new world made among its moil ancient monuments ; as witnefs the great double toad betwixt quito and cu/.co an undertaking fo ftupenduous that even the mod magnificent of thole executed by the romans cannot be compared to ir h fuppofes alfo another migration ot the phocnccians than thole already men tioned to have taken place ; and this was during a three years voyage made by the tynan fleet in the ferrice of king solomon he afferts on the authority history carver's travels cov.tir.uid r'lphe flemifli author then returnito jl the scythians between whom aad the americans he draws a parallel he obferves that feveral nations of them to ihc frcrch oi the cafpian s=a led a wan c'erir.g life ; which us well as many ether of their caitoms and way of living agrees in many circumftiificjs with the ineians ot america and though the ei"enr.blances arc not afefolutcly ptrfeft yet the emigrants even before they hit their own countir diffeied from each oihi and went noi by the lame name their change ofabpde affected what re mained he further fays that a ftrailar like r>efs exifts between fcveral arneiican na tions and the saaaoektcs who are fettled i.ccoiding to the ruffian accounts on the ie;st river oby and it is more natural continues he to fv.ppofe that colonies of thefe nations paftcd over to amtiicaby eroding the icy lea on their sedges than for the noivtegians to tra vel all the way that grpuus las marked eut for them tins v liter makes many o:h:r re niark that are equally fenfible and which appear to be juit ; but he iiver mixes with thefe fon.e that arc not io well founded fmaimel de moraez a p*rtngurze f in his hiiiorv of brazil afferts that ame rica has been wholly peopled by the car thagenians and ifradtftes he brings as a proof of this aflfcrtion the difcoreric tli f rrcer are kno • n ic have made at a grea distance beyond the coaft of africa the pmgreis of which being put a hop to b ihe fenate o carthage thole happened robe then in the newly dilco vered countjtps r bei-ng tut off from all communication v.i-h their countrymen and f'eftkuteof in v.y rcrcilaries of life ' : 11 i nto a 0 a e of barbs i i : n as to the radices this author lliinks that nctlung orcatttle co winch he might have add elephants camels rhinoceros and beads of many other kinds it is becaufs thofe nations that paffed thii.her were either not acquainted with their c.fe or had no ccrvenicrice to trarifport them having totally excluded many nations thai others have admitted as theprotmbic firuftttleis of ameiica for v.hich he gives fubuantial reaions,he fuppofes that itbe^antobc peopled by the noith and aaaintains tliat the priniitive colonies fprcad thtmfelvcs by means of the iiih mus cf panama through the whole ex tent of the continent he believes that the firft four.cers cf the indian colonies weie t'cythiar.c — that the pheenicians and garthagenians f;en\ards got fcetbg in america acrois the atlantic ocean and the chmefe by vay of the pacific and that other na lic s rright rirm liireto time have land ed thereby ci'.e or ether ef thefe v-ays crmighip.fiibly have been thrown en the ceafi by tempefts fir.ee thrt ugh the whole extent cf that controeik bo^j ia its northern and lcv.ihtir pans tie meet with undoubted maiki of a iv xtnre d ths iionhem nations with thole v ho have cfjofephus that the port at which this embai kation was made lay in the medi tsrr.incan the fleet he adds went in quefl c>f elephants teeth and peacocks to the weftcrn coaft of africa which is tar fifh ; then to ophir tor gold which is llaue or the ifland of hifpaniola ; and in the latter t pinion he is iupported by c;o]unr5uus who when he dif'coverej that ifund though be could trace the urnaccs in v.hkh the gold was refined to thefe emigrations which preceded the ch:iilian sera he addi many other of j liter date from different nations but th:fc i have not time to enumerate for the fame reaf n i am obliged to pac over rumberlefs wriiers on this fabjc and fiiall content myfelf v ith giving the ' kn timents of two cr thi ee more the firft o lecfe i pierre dc charle vcis a froacman who in his journal of a1 voyage tononb america ciadefblate ly as the year 1720 has ieeapitulated the opinions of a variety of authors oo this head to vrhifch he has fabjdinej his cyrn ccnj?sur«3 ut the lultei i-ui.jt