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

refuge.

monies preparatory to war Their 17. ornaments. 18. Their manner of curing the sick. 19. Their burial of the dead. 20. Their mourning for the dead. 21. Their raising seed to a departed brother. 22. Their choice of names adapted to their circumstances and the times. 23. Their own traditions, the accounts of our English writers, and the testimony which the Spanish and other authors have given concerning the primitive inhabitants of Adair. Peru and Mexico."

OF HUDSON'S RIVER.

forward the writings of Hornius, son of Theodosius the Great,

who affirms that " at or about the time of the commencement of the Christian era, voyages from Africa and Spain into the " and holds Atlantic ocean were both frequent and celebrated ; that " there is strong probability that the

Romans and Carthagenians, even 300 B. C., were well acquainted with the exist ence of this country," adding that there are " tokens of the

presence of the Greeks, Romans, Persians, and Carthagenians, The story of Madoc's voyage in many parts of the continent." 1 1 70, has been repeated by every writer upon the subject, and actual traces of Welsh colonization are affirmed