the Cohatatea, while the Mahicans and the " Lenapes called it the Mahicanituk or the

The Dutch continually flowing waters." gave it the name of Mauritius river, as early

as

1611, in honor of their stadtholder, Prince Maurice, of Nassau.

Hud

a name which the French adopted in Rio de Montagne. The English first gave it the name of Hudson's river by which, and North river, the latter to distinguish it from the Connecticut or East river, and from the Delaware or South river, it

has since been known.

son called it the River of the mountains,

Henry Hudson.

THE INDIAN TRIBES

ORIGIN, MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, ETC.

HE origin of the North American Indians,

is

a sub

ject which has engrossed the attention of learned men for over two hundred years, and yet the " " question, By whom was America peopled ?

remains without

satisfactory

answer.

In

1637,

Thomas

Morton wrote a book to prove that the Indians were of Latin John Joselyn held, in 1638, that they were of Tartar Cotton Mather inclined to the opinion that they were Scythians. James Adair seems to have been fully con vinced that they were descendants of the Israelites, the lost origin.

descent.

tribes ; and, after thirty years residence among them, published in 1775, an account of their manners and customs, from which he deduced his conclusions. 1 Dr. Mitchill, after considerable

investigation, concluded

" that the three

races, Malays, Tartars and Scandinavians, contributed to made up the great American