mountains, pursued their travels near to the great salt-water lake the great river (Delaware). Going (Atlantic), and discovered

on

still

further eastward

through the Sheyickbi country, they

came to another great stream

(the

On their return

Hudson).

home they gave so flattering an account of the excellence and richness of the regions thus discovered, as to induce the general belief that this was the land which the Great Spirit designed for that Madoc's part of

company landed on some

New England or Virginia, and in

occupy the aboriginal

foreground

history, were

of

our remote noble

a valiant,

process of time spread over a great part of The investigations showing America.

and populous race, who were advanced in arts and the policy of government and

the existence of 'white people in the valley of the Mississippi, and that they were of

raised

Welsh origin, are very interesting. This people spoke the Welsh language to a considerable extent, and claimed Welsh For more than a century and a half, the existence of this people in the interior of our country, has been traced." " TTatcs and Moulton. They occupied a large portion of the western area of the State of New York, comprising the valley of the Alleghany river to its utmost source, and extending eastwardly an undefined Our authorities do not leave distance. origin.

us in doubt, that this ancient people, who

fortifications

for

their

defense,

which are extended over the entire Misas

as

latitude 43,

high sissippi valley, and the lake country, reaching from Lake St. Clair to tario,