Morton wrote a book to prove that the Indians were of Latin John Joselyn held, in 1638, that they were of Tartar Cotton Mather inclined to the opinion that they were Scythians. James Adair seems to have been fully con vinced that they were descendants of the Israelites, the lost origin.

descent.

tribes ; and, after thirty years residence among them, published in 1775, an account of their manners and customs, from which he deduced his conclusions. 1 Dr. Mitchill, after considerable

investigation, concluded

" that the three

races, Malays, Tartars and Scandinavians, contributed to made up the great American

population, who were the authors of the various works and an DeWitt Clinton held, that tiquities found on the continent."

" the

probability is, that America was peopled from various quarters of the old world, and that its predominant race is the

Scythian or Tartarian."

"

Calmet, a distinguished author, brings

Observations and arguments in proof of the American Indians being descended from the Jews: I. Their division into 2. Their worship of Jehovah. tribes. 3. Their notion of a theocracy. 4. Their belief in the ministration of angels. 5. 6. Their Their language and dialects. manner of counting time. 7. Their pro 8. Their festi phets and high priests. Their vals, fasts and religious rites. 9. 10. Their ablutions and daily sacrifice. II. Their laws of uncleananointings. ness. 12. Their abstinence from unclean things. 13. Their marriages, divorces, and punishments of adultery. 14. Their

several punishments. 15. Their cities of 16. Their purifications and cere