[Footnote 207: "Notwithstanding the striking analogies existing between the nations of the New Continent and the Tartar tribes who have adopted the religion of Bouddah, I think I discover in the mythology of the Americans, in the style of their paintings, in their languages, and especially in their external conformation, the descendants of a race of men, which, early separated from the rest of mankind, has followed for a lengthened series of years a peculiar road in the unfolding of its intellectual faculties, and in its tendency toward civilization."--Humboldt's _Ancient Inhabitants of America_, vol. i., p. 200. "It can not be doubted that the greater part of the nations of America belong to a race of men who, isolated ever since the infancy of the world from the rest of mankind, exhibit in the nature and diversity of language, in their features, and the conformation of their skull, incontestable proofs of an early and complete civilization."--_Ibid._, vol. i., p. 250. On the American races in general, Humboldt refers to the beautiful work of Samuel George Morton, _Craniae Americanae_, 1839, p. 62-86; and an account of the skulls brought by Pentland from the Highlands of Titicaca, in the '_Dublin Journal of Medical and Chemical Science_,' vol. v., p. 475, 1834; also, Alcide d'Orbigny, _L'Homme Americain considere sous ses Rapports Physiol. et Mor._, p. 221, 1839; and, further, the work, so full of delicate ethnographical observations, of Prinz Maximilian of Wied, _Reise in das Innere von Nordamerika_, 1839.] [Footnote 208: "With regard to their origin, I have no doubt, independent of theological considerations, but that it is the same with ours. The resemblance of the North American savages to the Oriental Tartars renders it probable that they originally sprang from the same stock."--Buffon, Eng. trans., vol. iii., p. 193.]