The discovery of the lost tribes of Israel, has never ceased to be a subject of deep interest to the Jews. That divine protection which has been bestowed upon the chosen people, from the infancy of nature to the present period, has, without doubt, been equally extended to the missing tribes, and if, as I have reasoned to believe, our lost brethren were the ancestors of the Indians of tie American Continent, the inscrutable decrees of the Almigbty have been fulfilled in spreading unity and omnipotence to every quarter of the globe. . . . It is, however, probable that from the previous sufferings of the tribes in Egyptian bondage, that they bent their course in a northwest direction, which brought them within a few leagues of the American Continent, and which they finally reached.

Those who are most conversant with the public and private economy of the Indians, are strongly of opinion that they are the lineal descendants of the Israelites, and my own res searches go far to confirm me in the same belief.

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Their words are sonorous and bold, and their language and dialect are evidently of Hebrew origin. They compute time after the manner of the Israelites, by dividing the year into the four seasons, and their sub divisions are the lunar months, or our new Moons commencing according to the ecclesiastical year of Moses, the first Moon after the vernal equinox. . . . The Indians are not Savages, they are wild and savage in their habits, but possess groat vigor of intellect and native talent, they are a brave and eloquent people, with an Asiatic complexion and Jewish features.