FOOTNOTES:
[2] Vol. III., page 394.
[3] There is, however, little necessity for any argument on the subject: For, leaving out of the question the highest and most sacred of authorities, almost all respectable writers upon ethnology, including Buffon, Volney, Humboldt, &c., agree in assigning a common origin to all nations,—though the last deduces from many particulars, the conclusion that the American Indian was “isolated in the infancy of the world, from the rest of mankind.”—Ancient Inhabitants of America, vol. i., p. 250.
[4] It will be observed, that I assume the unity of the Indian race; and I am not sufficiently acquainted with the recent discussions on the subject, to be certain whether the question is still considered open. But the striking analogies between the customs, physical formation, and languages of all the various divisions, (except the Esquimaux, who are excluded), I think, authorize the assumption.
[5] Conquest of Mexico, vol. iii., p. 416.
[6] Conquest of Mexico, vol. iii., p. 417.
[7] Essays—Art. 'Milton.'
[8] Lectures on English Poets, p. 4.
[9] No very high compliment, but as high as it deserves. We shall see anon.
[10] Warburton's Conquest of Canada, vol. i., p. 177.