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 force as to make it in the last degree improbable that these could have been the discovery of more than one savage tribe, while the total dissimilarity in language between the natives of the several districts renders equally unlikely the supposition that these discoveries have been transmitted from one to another. This diversity of language it is which is so anomalous a feature in the case; for, while all the other circumstances which I have enumerated, clearly indicate a common origin, this alone seems to point in a different