Their Jewish customs are too many to be enumerated in this work; for a particular account of those customs, see Smith's View of the Hebrews. If, then, our Indians have evidently the manners of both the Scythian and the Jew, it proves them to have been, anciently, both Israelites and Scythians; the latter being the more ancient name of the nations now called Tartars, with whom the ten tribes may have amalgamated.

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Dr. West, of Stockbridge, relates, that an old Indian informed him, that his fathers in this country, had, not long since, been in the possession of a book, which they had, for a long time, carried with them, but having lost the knowledge of reading it, they buried it with an Indian chief.— View of the Hebrews, p. 223.

It had been handed down from family to family, or from chief to chief, as a most precious relic, if not as an amulet, charm, or talisman, for it is not to be supposed, that a distinct knowledge of what was contained in the strap could have long continued among them, in their wandering condition, amid woods and forests.

"It is said by Calmet, that the above texts are the very passages of Scripture, which the Jews used to write on the leaves of their phylacteries. These phylacteries were little rolls of parchment, whereon were written certain words of the law. These they wore upon their forehead, and upon the wrist of the left arm."— Smith's View of the Hebrews, p. 220.

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The Rev. Mr. Smith, of Pulteney, Vt, a few years since, published a work, entitled "A view of the Hebrews," in which he labors to establish that the American Indians worshipped but one God; the great Yohewah, or Jehovah of the Scriptures