A History of the Valley of Virginia - Couverture souple

Kercheval, Samuel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0788418661 ISBN 13 : 9780788418662

Editeur : Heritage Books, Inc, 2019

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Sr. the dclugo, it would be doubted in three or four hundred years after, whether Asia had ever been united by that part to Africa ;and many would firmly deny it. Whether that great event, the separation of the continents, took place before or after the population of A merica, it is impossible to determine ;but we are indebted to tlie above-mentioned navigators, for settling the long dispute about the point from which it was effected. Their observations prove, that in one place the distance between continent and continent is only thirty-nine miles; and in the middle of this narrow strait, there are two islands, which would greatly facilitate the passage of the Asiatics into the new world, supposing it took place in canoes after the convulsion which rent the two continents asunder. It may also be added, that these straits are, even in the smnmer, often filled with ice ;in winter fi-ozen over, 80 as to admit a passage for mankind, and by which quadrupeds might easily cross, and stock the continent. But where, from the vast expanse of the north-eastern A vorld, to fix on the first tribes who contributed to people the new continent, now inhabited from end to end, is a matter that has baflled human reason. The learned may make bold and ingenious conjectures, but plain good sense cannot always accede to them. As mankind increased in numbers, they naturally protruded one another forward. Wars might be another cause of migrations. No reason appears, why the Asiatic north might not be an qfficina vivoruin as well as theE uropean. The overteeming country to the east of the Riphean mountains, must have found it necessary to discharge its inhabitants :the first great increase of people were forced forwards by the next to it: at length reaching the utmost limits of the old world, found a new one, with ample space to occupy unmolested for ages; till Columbus, in an evil h
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Heritage Books, Inc
• Date d'édition: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0788418661
• ISBN 13: 9780788418662
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416