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Excerpt from Letters From the South, Vol. 1 of 2: Written During an Excursion in the Summer of 1816
Friezlanders; an eleventh, from the Celts; a twelfth, from the Egyptians; a thirteenth, from the Phoenicians; a fifteenth - I beg pardon - a fourteenth, from the Chinese; -a fifteenth, from the Norwegians; a sixteenth, from the Ethiopians; and a seventeenth, from the Anthropophagi! Here is an ancestor for every state in the union, which is enough, in all conscience, to content a reasonable man. But there are at least twenty more papas putting in for little America, which shows how anxious every body was to claim this noble offspring. Each of these supported 'his theory with a pertinacity proportioned to its enor mity; and, perhaps, there never was such a mass of absurdity as has been generated by this sub ject, useless in itself, and now beyond the reach of human research to determine.
It was to be hoped that the subject had been laid at rest in the learned lumber of the times, never to be revived. But a philosopher of our own country, whose name may be found in all the newspapers, has lately revived it; and did, what was thought - utterly impossible - produced new ab surdities. The ¿at-nosed Tartars, and Samoiedes.
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