like the moon; their chains, bracelets, mufflers, bonnets, ornaments of the legs; head bands, tablets, ear-rings, rings, and nose-jewels; the mantles, the wimples; and the crisping pins." One would imagine the prophet was here indeed describing the natives of America in their full dress! No other people on earth probably bear a resemblance to such a degree.

This description was given just before the expulsion of Israel. And nothing would be more likely than that their taste for these flashy ornaments should descend to posterity. For these make the earliest and deepest impressions on the rising genera

tion.

10. The Indians being in tribes, with their heads and names of tribes, affords further light upon this subject. The Hebrews not only had their tribes, and heads of tribes, as have the Indians but they had their animal emblems of their tribes. Dan's emblem was a serpent; Issachar's an ass; Benjamin's a wolf; and Judah's a lion. And this trait of character is not wanting among the natives of this land. They have their wolf tribe; their tiger tribe; panther tribe; buffalo tribe; bear tribe; deer tribe; raccoon tribe; eagle tribe, and many others. What other nation on earth bears any resemblance to this? Here, no doubt, is Hebrew tradition.

Various of the emblems given in Jacob's last blessing, have been strikingly fulfilled in the American Indians. "Dan shall be a serpent by the way; an adder in the path, that biteth the horse-heels, so that the rider shall fall backwards. Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf; in the morning he shall devour the prey: and at night he shall divide the spoil." Had the prophetic eye rested on the American Aborigines, it seems as though no picture could have been more accurate.

11. Their having an imitation of the ancient city of refuge, evinces the truth of our subject. Their city of refuge has been binted from Mr. Adair. But as this is so convincing an argument, (no nation on earth having any thing of the kind, but the ancient Hebrews and the Indians,) the reader shall he more particularly instructed on this article. Of one of these places of refuge, Mr. Boudinot says: "the town of refuge called Choate is on a large stream of the Mississippi, five miles above where Fort Loudon formerly stood. Here, some years ago, a brave Englishman was protected, after killing an Indian warrior in defence of his property. He told Mr. Adair, that after some months stay in this place of refuge, he intended to return to his house in the neighbourhood; but the chiefs told him it would prove fatal to him. So that he was obliged to continue there, till he pacified the friends of the deceased, by presents to their satisfaction. In the upper country of Muskagee, (says Dr.

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Boudinot) was an old beloved town, called Koosah-which is a place of safety for those who kill undesignedly.

"In almost every Indian nation (he adds) there are several peaceable towns, which are called old beloved, holy or white towns. It is not within the memory of the oldest people, that blood was ever shed in them; although they often force persons from them, and put them elsewhere to death." Who can read this, and not be satisfied of the origin of this Indian tradition?

The well known trait of Indian character, that they will pursue one who has killed any of their friends, ever so far, and ever so long, as an avenger of the bloodshed, thus lies clearly open to view. It originated in the permission given to an avenger of blood in the commonwealth of Israel; and is found in such a degree, probably, in no other nation.

12. Other Indian rites, and various other considerations, go to evince the fact, that this people are the ten tribes of Israel. Further details are given, and might be enlarged upon; as religious separations of Indian females, almost exactly answering to the law in ancient Israel; their beginning the year as did Israel, with the new moon after the vernal equinox; their special attention paid to new moons, as was paid in Israel; their green corn moon, the most lovely of all, even as Israel had their beloved month Abib, which signifies an ear of green corn; their Jubilee declared to have been observed by some of the natives : "Melvenda and Acasta both affirm, that the natives keep a Jubilee according to the usage in Israel." The testimony of Edwards, in his " West Indies," that the striking uniformity of the prejudices and customs of the Caribbee Indians, to the practices of the Jews, has not escaped the notice of historians,-as Gumella, Du Tertre and others ;" and the various predictions of the final restoration of Israel, bringing them from the ends of the earth, from the west, and (as one translates it)" from the going down of the sun." These things open fruitful sources of

evidence.

But I have more than equalled my designed limits. It is again asked, is it possible to find another people on earth exhibiting an equal degree of evidence of their being the ten tribes of Israel? Can another people on earth be found exhibiting one sixth part of the evidence adduced in favour of the American natives? We expect no new revelation, nor miracles wrought, Here is just such to inform who are the ten tribes of Israel.

evidence as we should rationally look for; but six times as much of it, as we should dare to have expected, after a lapse of 2,500 years, with a people without letters. Our aborigines are essentially distinguished from all other pagans on earth, in

the uniform belief of most of them of one God; and their treedom from false gods; as well as in many other striking things, which appear in their history.

How prone have been mankind, in all ages, to idolatry.Hundreds of thousands of false goods, of every foolish description, have existed in the bewildered imaginations of men destitute of revelation. But the knowledge of the true God was renounced. "As they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up," to almost every description of idolatry. How early did the world (in several centuries after the flood) go off to gross idolatry, even under the instructions of the patriarchs, and so soon after the terrible admonitions of the flood! The natives of one of the greatest islands of the eastern ocean are so depraved, that it has not been known that they had the least idea of any Supreme Being. How prone were the Jews and Israel, in ancient times, even under all their rich advantages, to unite in the idolatries of their heathen neighbours,

But the 70 years captivity of the Jews in Babylon, cured them utterly of idolatry, from that day to this. While they have been dispersed, and been infidels relative to Jesus Christ; they have been firm believers in the Old Testament, and in the one God of Abraham. It is analogous with this to expect, that the ten tribes (wherever they are) would be cured, as well as the Jews, of their gross idolatry, and would be kept during their long outcast state, in a situation somewhat resembling that of the Jews, in their speculation concerning God. Such has been the case with the natives of this continent, at least to as great a degree as could be without a bible or letters; and such has been the case with no other people on earth! Nothing but the very special power and mercy of God, could have kept these natives in this traditional habit of acknowledging the one only living and true God, as they have done. While they have been dead to the life of religion, as a valley of dry bones; yet they have strangely been kept from acknowledging any other God but Jehovah, the Great Spirit, who made them and all things.

And light, in these last days of wonders (when the time for the restoration of Israel and Judah is drawing near) has becn breaking out and accumulating on this subject, to exhibit this origin of the American natives. It is ascertained in the "Star in the West," that Spaniards, Portuguese, French, English, Jews, and Christians, men of learning, and the illiterate, and sea-faring men; all have united in the statements of facts, which go to indicate that these Indians are the descendants of Israel! Mr. M'Kenzie has travelled from the Atlantic very far to the north-west; and some of his statements of facts go to the same point. Various of the European visitants to this continent,

early after it was known to the civilized world, expressed their surprize on finding among the natives things which bore such a resemblance to the history of ancient Israel. What account can be given of all this, but that here are the very ten tribes.These tribes must be somewhere on earth. Where are they? How can they be known? Whence came our native Americans? What other account can be given of their traditions, their language, Hebrew words and phrases, (the radical language of their tribes) and the broken fragments of the ancient economy of Israel running through so many of them? It would be far wilder and more difficult to account for these things on any other principle, than to say we have evidence that is satisfactory, of having found at last, the very valley of the dry bones of the house of Israel! The facts stated of them, must on every other principle, appear most unaccountable, not to say miraculous.

Further Remarks on the foregoing Subject.

IF any are still disposed to doubt the doctrine advanced in the preceding remarks, on account of the dark complexion of the savages, will do well to recollect, that a majority of mankind are dark in complexion. The Asiatic nations are invariably such. Abraham, the head, and prince of the Jewish nation, was an Assyrian. The Jews in that country are of the olive colour-in France and Turkey they are brown-in Spain and Portugal swarthy. They are tawny in Egypt and Arabia -in Abyssinia they are as dark as the native Indians Buchannan, in his researches in Asia, tells us, in that country he found several thousands of Jews whom he calls black Jews. Another objection is, their having no beard on their faces, as have the Jews. Of this it is said of the Indians, that they have a method of removing it, either by plucking it, or in some other way. Be this as it may, it is proved by Mr. John R. Jewett, who was taken prisoner by the Indians, at Nootka Sound in 1803, and remained among them three years. He had been a blacksmith or armourer on board the ship Boston, but at Nootka Sound, himself and a Mr. Thompson, were the only persons who survived the slaughter of the whole crew by king Maquinna's savages. The ship was bound to China, and had come to anchor at Nootka Bay for wood, but being deceived by the artifice of Maquinna, fell a sacrifice to savage revenge, for some injuries received, from some other adventurers, on the northwest coast of America, some time before. Mr. Jewett while

among them says, many tribes visited Nootka, and among others, there came a tribe far from the north, who had very long and heavy beards, who were more savage and moross than any he had ever seen. These facts, it is believed, are sufficient to remove all doubts arising from the circumstance of the natives being swarthy, and prepares the mind to recognize the wandering tribes of the Western, Northern and Southern regions, as lineally descended from the royal house of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel.

PHENOMENON OF THE EROLITHS.

The following is an account of the astonishing phenomenon of the Erolith or air stones.

[By Adam Clarke, LL. D. F. A. S.]

The Lord cast down great stones from heaven upon them.Some have contended that stones, in the common acceptation of the word, are intended here: and that the term hail stonesis only used to point out the celerity of their fall, and their quantity. That stones have fallen from the clouds, if not from a greater height, is a most incontestable fact. That these have fallen in different parts of the world is also true-the East Indies, America, France, Germany, England, &c., have all witnessed this phenomenon of such stones I have seen several fragments; some considerable pieces may be seen in the British Museum. That God might have cast down such stones as these, on the Canaanites, there can be no doubt, because his power is unlimited; and the whole account proves that here there was a miraculous interference. But it is more likely that hail stones, in the proper sense of the word, are meant, as well as expressed, in the text. That God on other occasions has made use of hail stones, to destroy both men and cattle, we have ample proof in the plague of hail that fell on the Egyptians.-See the note on Exod. ix. 18. There is now before me a square of glass, taken out of a south window in the house of Mr. Ball of Crockerton, in the parish of Longbridge Deverell, county of Wilts, through which a hail stone passed in a shower that fell there June 1, 1780, at two o'clock P. M. The hole is an obtuse ellipsis, or oval, and is cut as true as if it had been done with a diamond: it is three inches and a half in diameter; a proof that the stone that pierced (which was about eleven inches in circumference) came with inconceivable velocity, else the glass must have been