In Mr. Priest's work we also find this:

"Dr. West, of Stockbridge, (Mass.) 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. "-Ant. of America, by Priest, p. 69. (Quoted from "View of the Hebrews," p. 223.)

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The Book of Mormon is the book which was once "possessed" by the Indians' ancestors, its teachings "are the same" as the white man's Bible, it was handed down "from father to son," and was finally "buried," not with one of their chiefs, but by one of their prophets and generals; and, "while they had" this book, and obeyed its teachings, they were blessed with "an extraordinary divine Spirit," by which they "brought down showers of plenty on the beloved people."