3. If they were not Malays, who were they? Were they Mauritanians, _vide_ Postel; or Scandinavians, _vide_ Busbeck; or Canaanites, _vide_ Gomara, and John de Lery; or descendants of the tribes led captive by Psalmanazar, _vide_ Thevet; or of Shera and Japhet, _vide_ Torniel; or a colony of Romans, _vide_ Marinocus; or Gauls, _vide_ James Charron; or Friezelanders, _vide_ Hamconius and Juffredus Petri; or Celtae, _vide_ Abraham Milius; or Phoenicians, _vide_ Le Compte; or Carthaginians, _vide_ Father Acosta, &c. &c.? 4. Had this ancient people the art of embalming human bodies, or is that art of modern invention, as some pretend? 5. If M. Verdier find they are of Malay origin, he must ascertain in what year of the world they went to America, and who was their leader; 6. How long they resided there, and under which pope they were driven away or exterminated. 7. In what manner, and by what conveyance, was the transportation made? Did they cross Behring's Straits, or on the ice from Japan to California? Were the first settlers the crew of some vessel or vessels driven to the western continent by stress of winds, or were they led thither by some far-sighted captain? 8. Finally, how many ships did it take to carry them over? Many pages of remarks, by different members, were appended to this paper. The other paper, marked B., read as follows: B. 1. Is the similarity of physiognomy and features between the present race of American Indians and the Asiatic Tartars strong enough to induce an unprejudiced observer to pronounce them members of the same great family of mankind, or, to speak so as to be understood, 'does an Indian look like a Tartar?' 2. Are the coincidences of sound and signification in the languages of North America and Tartary sufficiently numerous and unequivocal to induce one to pronounce them of a common origin? 3. Do the customs and manners of the North American Indians correspond in any material degree with those of their supposed brethren, the Tartars? 4. Are there any animals, wild or domestic, tameable or untameable, in America, which are of a species known to exist at this day in Tartary? And is there any thing in the vegetable kingdom of the west which bears marks of derivation from that country? 5. Is there any reason to think these Indians descended from the Welsh? What are we to think of the voyage of Madoc and his supposed colonization of the Western continent? Upon this point M. Verdier will do well to examine their pedigrees with great care.