cient tiara, the Archi-magus, has his tuft of white feathers. His holy fire he obtains by rubbing two sticks together; and his golden bells and pomegranates are formed of the dried spurs of wild turkeys, strung so as to rattle on his fine mocasins.

Mr. Adair assures us, when the Indian Archi-magus (high priest) is addressing his people, and enforcing "the divine speech," that he calls them "the beloved and holy people," according to the language concerning ancient Israel. He urges them" to imitate their virtuous ancestors," and "flourishes upon their beloved land, flowing with milk and honey."

Mr. Adair describes the Indian feasts, and speaks of them as bearing a very near resemblance of the stated feasts in ancient Israel. He gives accounts that when the Indians are about to engage in war, they have their preparatory sacrifices, purifications, and fastings. He speaks of their daily sacrifice, their ablutions, marriages, divorces, burials, mournings for the dead, separations of women, and punishment of various crimes, as being, in his opinion, manifestly of Hebrew origin.

Their reckonings of time, Mr. Adair viewed as evidently Hebrew. They begin their year, as did Israel, at the first appearance of new moon after the vernal equinox. They reckon by the four seasons, and by the sub-divisions of the moons.

Bartram says, the Indians believe their high priests have intimate communion with the world of spirits; and that no great design is formed by the Indians without his counsel.

The Assinipoils, far to the west, we learn in Capt. Carver's travels among the western Indians, have their high priest, who pretends to great intimacy with the Great Spirit, and to be able to foretel future events; as is the case with the Killistinoes, at the Grand Portage. Certain things he thus found, among different Indians, which show them to have been of the same origin.

Within about eighty years, men inform, that these rites of the high priests have been more neglected. The Indians inform, that in 1747, the high priest in the Natchez, was struck dead by lightning, while using his invocation for rain. They suppose the Great Spirit to have been angry with him for some impurity; and with the "darting fire and threatening voice," took him away; and forbid them to renew the like attempt.

Bartram gives a description of a southern Indian temple. It is a square of small buildings in the centre of their Indian town. The small buildings of one story cover perhaps half an acre, more or less, according to the strength of the tribe. In one of these buildings they hold their councils. A part of this building is shut up as a holy of holies; and it is death for any but the high priest, to enter it. Here they deposit their most sa

Hundreds of thousands of false gods, 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 admonition 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 been 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 descendunts 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 surprise on finding among the natives things which bore such a resemblance to the history of ancient Israel. What account can

home in the following manner. The young man was at London, and being drunk one night, as he was going towards his lodgings, fell into a cellar, and in the fall was seized with horror, and thought he fell into hell. It pleased God he took little harm by the fall, but lay there some hours, still thinking he was in hell.

After he was come to himself, and was got home into Kent, he betook himself to read and study the scriptures, and to much prayer. At length, his father perceived this; and fearing he would turn Puritan, dealt roughly with him, and made him dress his horses, which he humbly and willingly submitted to. When his father perceived he sat up late at night, reading his bible, he denied him candle-light, but being allowed a fire in his chamber, he was wont to lie along and read by the fire light. While he was dressing his father's horses, and reading by the fire, he had great comforts from the Lord. His father seeing these means ineffectual, resolved to send him to France, thạt by the airiness of that country he might be cured. He went, and being at his own disposal, placed himself in the house of a pious protestant minister; and between them, after they were acquainted, there grew great endearment. He made great progress in speaking the language; and soon after, he had orders to return home. The father intreating it, the landlord, with whom he had sojourned, came into England with him, and both were made very welcome at his father's house. But at last the father finding the French gentleman and his son at prayers together, paid him what was due to him, and sent him away.

Then his father having an interest in a great lady at Whitehall, prevailed with her to take his son for her gentleman. He thought by a court-life to drive away his melancholy (as he called his son's seriousness.) The lady had many servants; some of whom were given to swearing, whom this young gentleman reproved, with that prudence and gravity, that sin fell down before him. And if any of the servants had been ill employed, and had heard him coming, they would say, "Stop! Mr. Studly is coming." After a year's time, his father waited upon the lady, to inquire of his son's carriage. She answered she was glad she had seen his son's face, he had wrought a mighty reformation in her family. She that had formerly been troubled with unruly servants, by his prudent carriage was now as quiet in her house as if she had lived in a private family in the country. At this, the father stormed, "What, will he make Puritans in Whitehall ?" He told the lady that was no place for him, he would take him with him, which, to her trouble, he did.

When he had him at home in Kent, as his last refuge, he