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At the end of forty days the rain ceased, and sometime after the man opened a window, and sent out a raven to find dry land, but the raven returned, finding no rest. At length he sent out a turtle dove which returned with a branch or unclear in its mouth. The man looked and saw a little spot of dry ground at a distance, to which he unclear the house, and soon found the house resting on the top of a mountain. As the water dried away, it being the proper season of the year to commence his farming business unclear, he engaged in cultivating the ground. Not long after the flood, the people determined to put up a building which would reach to heaven. They accordingly commenced, building with stone, and after carrying it to a very great height, God, being displeased stopped their work, and gave them different languages, so that from that time they were dispersed over the earth, and soon began to have wars with each other. Till they all spoke one language unclear Thomas Smith. The old men say that one of their great ancestors had twelve sons, of whom came twelve tribes. These people (or the ancestors of the Indians) were chosen? of God to be his unclear people. The Lord told them they should be the father of all other nations. He gave them a certain country and commanded them to go to it, but in order to get there they would have great waters and a great wilderness to pass through. When They started to go to that country, they were fleeing from their enemies, but the Lord told their leader to strike a certain great water, they came to soon after setting out, and He would cause the water to divide, that they might pass through, & then would bring the water together so as effectually to stop their enemies. Their leader therefore struck the water with a rod, and it divided, so that all passed through the water then closing together prevented the progress of their enemies. Not long after this God came down onto a mountain, and the mountain shone with peculiar brightness, and their leader went up onto the mountain with God. Or rather, with the son of God. The old men said it was the son of God who descended on the mountain. The Lord there, from the Mountain spoke to the people. He also gave their leader laws which He marked on a long smooth stone, and enabled him to read them. He also gave them other instructions which were written on skin. He also taught them to sing (or repeat) a certain prayer, asking for a long &