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,

the south shore of Lake Onand the country of the Onondagas

and Oneidas."

Schooleraft.

Priest traces

the Allegeivi from the lake country to the " vale of Mexico, where they finally

and permanently rested," and where they assumed the name of Aztecas, or people of the lakes. is

"

The course of migration

marked by the mounds where they rested," or dwelt

journey.

temporarily on their

American Antiquities.

OF HUDSON'S RIVER.

/

their

Though emigrating at first in small

permanent abode.

numbers, the great body of the nation at last settled on the four great rivers, Delaware, Hudson, Susquehanna and Potomac, and kindled their council-fire in the centre of their possessions.

Here they became

so

numerous that their descendants were

compelled to separate from them in branches, so that nearly a title forty tribes honored them with the title of grandfather -,