Some Canadian writers: J. Campbell in Quebec Lit. and Hist. Soc. Transactions (1880-81); Napoléon Legendre’s “Races indigénes de l’Amérique devant l’histoire” in Proc. Royal Soc. of Canada, ii. 25.
[1567] The book is a rare one. Field, No. 586. Sabin, vii. p. 157. Quaritch in 1885 had not known of a copy being for sale in twenty years. He then had two (Nos. 28,355-56). There is one in Harvard College Library. Garcia drew somewhat from a manuscript of Juan de Vetanzos, a companion of Pizarro, and he gives the native accounts of their origin. There was a second edition, with Barcia’s Annotations, Madrid, 1729 (Carter-Brown, iii. 432).
[1568] New English Canaan (Amsterdam, 1637—C. F. Adams’ ed., 1883, pp. 125, 129).
[1569] There is an English translation in the Bibliotheca Curiosa. [Edited by Edmund Goldsmidt.] (Edinburgh, 1883-85.) No. 12. On the origin of the native races of America. To which is added, A treatise on foreign languages and unknown islands, by Peter Albinus. Translated from the Latin. The translation is unfortunate in its blunders. Cf. H. W. Haynes in The Nation, Mar. 15, 1888. Grotius was b. 1583; d. 1645.
[1570] Carter-Brown, ii. 522, 523, 543.
[1571] This book is scarcer than the first (Brinley, iii. 5414-15). There is a letter addressed to De Laet, touching Grotius, in Claudius Morisotus’s Epistolarum Centuriæ duæ, 1656.
[1572] Brinley, iii. 5407-8. In Samuel Sewall’s Letter Book, i. 289, is an amusing reference to the “vanities of Hornius.”
[1573] Jo. Bapt. Poisson, Animadversiones ad ea quæ Hugo Grotius et Joh. Lahetius de origine gentium Peruvianarum et Mexicanarum scripserunt (Paris, 1644); Rob. Comtæus Nortmanus, De origine gentium Americanarum (Amsterdam, 1664), an academic dissertation adopting the Phœnician view; A. Mil, De origine animalium et migratione populorum (Geneva, 1667); Erasmus Franciscus, Lust- und Staatsgarten (Nürnberg, 1668), with a third part on the aboriginal inhabitants (Müller, 1877, no. 1150); Gottfried [Godofredus] Wagner, De Originibus Americanis (Leipzig, 1669); J. D. Victor, Disputatio historia de America (Jena, 1670); E. P. Ljung, Dissertatio de origine gentium novi orbis prima (Stregnäs [Sweden] 1676). An essay of 1695 reprinted in the Memoirs, Anthrop. Soc. of London, i. 365; Nic Witsen, Noord-en-Oost Tartarye (2d ed., Amsterdam, 1705), holding to the migration from northeastern Asia.
[1574] Cf. Alex. Catcott’s Treatise on the Deluge (2d ed., enlarged, London, 1768), and A. de Ulloa’s Noticias Americanas (Madrid, 1772, 1792), for speculations.
[1575] Cf. Sabin, xiv. 59,239, etc., for editions. The original three vols. appeared in Berlin in 1768, 1769, and 1770, respectively. The best edition, with De Pauw’s subsequent defence and Pernetty’s attack, was issued at London in three vols. in 1770:—