certaiu that Welsh Indians no longer exist ill this part of the Ne;v World, though Carlin im;;gincd that lie detected traces of XVelsh ill the ,M;mdan tonLine, and found that this tribe was of lighter c,,lour than the other Indians, and that it used skin coracles, similar to the old Celtic "CUl'raghs. ": In certain of their customs lie thought lie could see traces of a Welsh influence. This, however, has not been confirmed by subsequent Ollservation: and thcrc is no one now who connects the ,M;mdans with the descendants of Madoc.'

The iudirect evidcnce does not point decisively to the hVelsh settlement. North of Mexico there are no remains which can be referred to them; the potter:?' found in tile Ohio tombs indicates the presence of a civilised race, hut the skulls fouud near them are Mongolian not Caucasian. There are earth mounds in the Ohio valley, which are like those of tile Celts, but this resemblance gives no proof? A silver crucifix, with the letters I.,q., dug up in 1844 near tile Ohio, was almost certaiuly lost by some Freuchman or trader from Canada.

In Mexico, we are told, the Spaniards, when they landed, found that the cross was revered, and that -baptism was in use. This, however, only proves that certain religious rites are cormnon to all civilised men; it affords no real grounds for the conclusion that the Mexicans were Welsh. Their language makes this in the last degree improbable, unless the Celtic innuigrants were wholly bsorhed. The Mexicans, indeed, held some talk with the Spaniards to the effect that white men had visited them before; aud the same tradition has been observed elsewhere amongst the Indiansfi It may be ouly a tradition, and does not necessarily point to the reality of the Welsh voyages.

Vhat evidence there is, is, then, by no means strong iu fayour of the story. If clear traces of the legend could be discovered in Welsh literature herore the Colunbian discovery of America, the case would be very different, especially if the evideuce were of the trustworthy quality of the Icehuldic Sitgas. The vague, indefinitc, and unprecisc nature of what tcstinlony we possess, is app:trcnt on examination. The story does not allpear in its present shape till

('atlin, ' North American Indians,' i. :14, 207: ii. It is well to reinoral,or that tile Norsemen who indisl,utahly rcache, l Ame,'ica and settled there, ]lave also left 110 trace.

Amongst the Shawnees of Florida. Maj,,r, 'Zeni,' xciii.