The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 6, December 1837

The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 6, December 1837

AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES. THE ENCAGED BIRD TO HIS MISTRESS. THE SOUL'S TRUST. MR. AND MRS. TOMPKINS. ROSALIE. STANZAS. 'NURSERIES OF AMERICAN FREEMEN.' OLD AGE. HUNTING SONG. THE POOR RELATION. TO A BELLE. FLORAL ASTROLOGY. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTINCTIONS OF COLOR. TO A LOCK OF HAIR. WILSON CONWORTH. HOPE. A PRACTITIONER, HIS PILGRIMAGE. OUR BIRTH-DAYS. LAY OF THE MADMAN. OLLAPODIANA. EXAMPLE. THE COMING OF WINTER. OCEOLA'S CHALLENGE. RANDOM PASSAGES LITERARY NOTICES. EDITORS' TABLE. THE DRAMA. LITERARY RECORD. In view of the reasons heretofore suggested, why it is improbable that either the Egyptians, the Carthaginians, or the Romans, were the first inhabitants of this continent, and why, from the present state of our knowledge, no other distinct nation of people is entitled to the exclusive reputation of having been the primitive discoverers of America, the reader is very naturally led to inquire for the evidences assigned by the advocates of particular theories for the sources of their origin. These evidences, although important to the antiquarian, cannot, from the brevity and popular mode proposed by us in treating this subject, be critically stated. We have, nevertheless, offered some reasons and inferences of our own, why those evidences cannot be conclusive; and we would refer others to our own or other means of information, should they feel disposed to make farther investigations. However plausible the story of Votan may have appeared, as testimony in point, the reader shall judge, from a few facts which will be here noticed, whether even that has much probability to support it. No one at least can deny the greater safety of doubting, where there is no better proof, should he not, with others, arrive at the ultimate conclusion, that the best evidence of all may be in favor of the opinion that these people originated where their relics are now found. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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