Dr. Smith, in his View of the Hebrews, a clever and valuable work, tells us that an old Indian chief stated to a clergyman with whom he was conversing, that his forefathers had, not long since, possessed a book which they constantly carried with them, but having lost the knowledge of reading it, they buried it with an old chief of their tribe.

These circumstances, taken in connexion with the facts I have already stated, can hardly fail to convince a candid and impartial reader, that the American Indians are the last remaining descendants of the ten lost tribes of Israel; the evidence, on the point, appearing to be as strong as can well be imagined or described.