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... North because the South American Indians are unlike those of the North . The correctness of this conclusion may be determined by the following testimony of Humboldt who states that " the Indians of New Spain bear a general resemblance ...
... North because the South American Indians are unlike those of the North . The correctness of this conclusion may be determined by the following testimony of Humboldt who states that " the Indians of New Spain bear a general resemblance ...
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... north - west of Europe or the north - east of Asia , there seem to be good reasons for supposing that the progenitors of all the American nations , from Cape Horn to the southern confines of Labrador , migrated from the latter rather ...
... north - west of Europe or the north - east of Asia , there seem to be good reasons for supposing that the progenitors of all the American nations , from Cape Horn to the southern confines of Labrador , migrated from the latter rather ...
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... north - west of Mexico . The Mexicans point out their various stations , as they advanced from this , into the in- terior provinces , and it is precisely the same route which they must have held , if they had been emigrants from Asia ...
... north - west of Mexico . The Mexicans point out their various stations , as they advanced from this , into the in- terior provinces , and it is precisely the same route which they must have held , if they had been emigrants from Asia ...
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... North American . The Iroquois is more unlike the Peruvian than he is unlike the wanderer on the steppes of Siberia . Physiology has not succeeded in defining the qualities which belong to every well - formed Mongolian , and which never ...
... North American . The Iroquois is more unlike the Peruvian than he is unlike the wanderer on the steppes of Siberia . Physiology has not succeeded in defining the qualities which belong to every well - formed Mongolian , and which never ...
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... North and South , have something of a traditional value to add to these notions , expressive of an opinion of foreign origin . Sir Alexander Mackenzie in his voyages among the Arctic tribes relates of the Chepeweyans , that " they have ...
... North and South , have something of a traditional value to add to these notions , expressive of an opinion of foreign origin . Sir Alexander Mackenzie in his voyages among the Arctic tribes relates of the Chepeweyans , that " they have ...
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Page 123 - Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member, but not a second time for the same cause; and shall have all other powers necessary for a branch of the legislature of a free State.
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