Champagne; and these modern Trojans have always retained so
strong an aversion to their enemies, the Greeks, that there
is not at present four persons in the whole province of
Champagne, who will learn their language; nay, they would
never admit any Jesuits among them; probably because they had
heard it said, that some of that body used formerly to
explain Homer in their public schools."

Proceeding in this manner, M. de Voltaire shows how easily
this hypothesis might be overturned; and while one might
thus demonstrate that the Parisians are descended from the
Greeks, other profound antiquarians might in like manner prove
them to be of Egyptian, or even of Arabian extraction; and
although the learned world might much puzzle themselves to
decide the question, yet would it remain undecided and in
uncertainty.--_Preface to the Life of Peter the Great._

[2] In a small work entitled "Ancient History of the Six
Nations," written by David Cusick, an educated Indian of the
Tuscarora village, frequent mention is made of the actual
presence among them, of Tarenyawagua, or Holder of the Heavens,
who guided and directed them when present, and left rules for
their government, during his absence. Several miracles
performed by him are particularly mentioned. It likewise speaks
of the occasional visits of Angels or 'agents of the Superior
power' as they are called by Cusick; and tells of a visitor who
came among the Tuscaroras long anterior to the discovery of
America by Columbus. "He appeared to be a very old man, taught
them many things, and informed them that the people beyond the
great water had killed their Maker, but that he rose again. The
old man died among them and they buried him--soon after some
person went to the grave and found that he had risen; he was
never heard of afterwards."

[3] In confirmation of this tradition among the Indians, the
following somewhat singular circumstance related by Mr. Carver,
may with propriety be adduced:

While at Grand Portage, from the number of those who were there
and the fact that the traders did not arrive as soon as was
expected, there was a great scarcity of provisions, and much
consequent anxiety as to the period of their arri