autochthonal

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The present inhabitants are not autochthonal, no more than we are the first settlers of this country. 

From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Wild, Joseph

All at once, sudden as though autochthonal, there appeared meadow-larks and blackbirds: dead weeds or man-erected posts serving in lieu of trees as vantage points from which to sing.

From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by Marchand, J. N.

The eight hundred thousand G�nds of the G�ndwana are supposed to be members of the great autochthonal family of ancient India.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 by Various