. La storia della democrazia americana, politica e industriale. Elves da dis-il pcrsiug nativo troppo ampiamente. E' vero che quattro fiumi hanno rotto il muro degli Appalachi indiani - il Potomac, il Delaware, Sus-quehanna e Hudson-Mohawk; ma, senza più abilità engerneering di quell'epoca posseduta, solo il Mohawk poteva essere usato come strada per il paese interno - e quel percorso era chiuso dal formidabile Iroquois. La distribuzione dei nativi rafforzò l'influenza geographicalica. Abbiamo poca conoscenza esatta circa il num- I NATIVI 5 Rs dei nativi; ma è certo che quelli ad est del Mississippi d

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. The story of American democracy, political and industrial . elves by dis-The native pcrsiug too widely. True, four rivers broke theIndians Appalachian wall — the Potomac, Delaware, Sus-quehanna, and Hudson-Mohawk; but, without more engi-neering skill than that age possessed, only the Mohawk couldbe used as a road to the inner country — and that routewas closed by the formidable Iroquois. The distribution of the natives reinforced the geographicalinfluence. We have little accurate knowledge about the num- THE NATIVES 5 bers of the natives; but it is certain that those east of theMississippi did not exceed 200, 000. Many a single city inthat district to-day contains more people than dwelt in allthe continent, north of Mexico, when Europeans first touchedits shores. Three groups of Indian peoples held the countrybetween the Mississippi and the Atlantic. The Gulf Tribes(Choctaws, Seminoles, Creeks) had made the most progresstoward civilization; but they were too far south and westto affect White settlement much until the beginnings of P:^J , 4;-. An Algonkin Village. From Beverlys History of Virginia (1701) ; based ona picture by John White (one of Raleighs colonists) in 1585, now in the BritishMuseum. The palisades must have been twelve feet high. Probably a springof water was found inside. The fields of corn and tobacco in the rear werecommon property. Ceremonial dances were held within the circle of postsabout the lodge in the foreground. Georgia and Tennessee, almost at the end of the colonialperiod. The roaming Algonkins were the largest group, but also the weakest and least civilized. Numbering from75, 000 to 100, 000 souls, — thinly scattered in petty, mu-tually hostile tribes^ — they haunted rather than in-habited a vast hunting preserve stretching from theAtlantic to the INIississippi and from the Ohio to the farnorth. They included the Powhatans, Delawares, Narra-gansetts, Pequods, Mohegans, and indeed nearly all thetribes with which the early English set

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