Religious Intelligencer mentions View of the Hebrews in a review.

Date
Nov 15, 1828
Type
Periodical
Source
Religious Intelligencer
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

"American Indians," Religious Intelligencer (New Haven, Conn) (November 15, 1828): 399

Scribe/Publisher
Religious Intelligencer
People
Ethan Smith, Elias Boudinot, Religious Intelligencer, Israel Worsley
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

A work of about 200 pages, has just been published in London, (says the Episcopal Watchman,) entitled “A View of the American Indians, their General Character, Customs, Language, Public Festivals, Religious Rites, and Traditions; showing them to be the descendants of the ten tribes of Israel: The language of Prophecy concerning them, and the course by which they travelled from Media into America. By Israel Worsley.” It is characterized by the Christian Remembrancer, as containing much curious information on the subject of which it treats, and though it does not distinctly establish its position, states enough to stagger disbelief, if not to convince, and opens a field of inquiry not only interesting, but highly instructive. In 1816, Dr. Boudinot published his “Star in the West, or a Humble Attempt to discover the long-lost ten tribes of Israel.” In 1825, Mr. Ethan Smith seat out his “View of the Hebrews, or the tribes of Israel in America.” These, together with “The Gathering of Israel,” a work published in Amsterdam in 1644, and some other sources of information, assisted by the incidental remarks of Josephus, Prideaux, Gibbon, Robertson, &c. are the materials of which the present treatise has been composed; and, if it has no other merit, it has, at least, put into a tangible form, some excedingly singular coincidences and arguments.

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