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people. and although the name of Edomites, or Idumeans?, being swallowed up in that of? jews, it became wholly lost, and no more heard of. This abolition of their name happened about the end of the first century after Christ." (unclear connexion?) "One hundred and six years before Christ, tristobulus?, making war upon the unclear, subdued the greatest part of them, and forced them to become proselytes to the jewish religion, as Hyneamus had the Idumeans." (Prideaux's Communion Vol. unclear.S.B.) Thus we find two whole nations amalgamated with those two tribes, beside all the individual proselyteswhome the Pharisees, in their real, gathered into their nation. The complexion, therefore, and featurs of European jews can form no unclear by which to decide whether the Indians are Isrealites or not. But it will be considered that though the Indians all claim to be red, yet their complexion, in different climates, and under different circumstances, appears very differently. In the South, some are so dark, that if they did not class themselves among the red people, we should not. Some again have a yellow complexion, discovering to the view of others, nothing of the red. Among Northern tribes, many are too light to be classed among red men, were it not for their determination to be so. But after all that may be said of the difference between European jews & Indians, yet, if I mistake not, William Penn when surrounded by Indians Pennsylvania, seemed to imagine himself in the midst of a company of jews, the resemblance was so great. Please examine. I have not his works whey they reverred? his name, they kept his sabbaths, but when they apostatized from him, they disregarded the sabbath, its? a nation, the ten tribes were apostates from the commencement of jezoboam's? reign. unclear their disregarding the sabbath was it appears one great reason why they were driven from their own country. From worshipping the calves of jeroboam, they turned to worshipping the sun and moon, and when scattered among the unclear and Persians would naturally imbibe their ideas respecting fire. All this idolatry, with individual exceptions, the Indians evidently still retain. And while they continue in the same apostary which first caused them to disregard the sabbath, we cannot suppose they will return to their former observance of that day. Yet, would it not seem that the seventh day has been a peculiar day to the Indians? Their feasts on almost all important occasions are continued seven days; and at their national festivalstivals how many of the most important transactions occur the seventh day? That is the general day for their most important and sacred duties.