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Sogdiona?, their knowledge of letters & historical writings, both of which have been lost by time in the northern wilds of America, but at so late a period as to leave circumstantial traditions with their descendants of the facts related to their ancient writings? The climate inviting them, they came by degrees to the lakes, accompanied by some of the Esquimaux; and from thence to the countries, on the Ohio & on the Cumberland, where the industry, arts & civilisation of the inhabitants had heaped together the conveniences of life, which offered a rich spoil to their rapacity. 368. - "The letters which are found in America inscribed on rocks, may be traced by reference to the (this) history of the Hebrews". 368. _

"The remnant of the ten tribes which separated from that branch which enlarged? & became the Tartars, - "that part of them which removed to the northern parts of Siberia, after lingering for some time there, it is supposed, came into America and made in the latter country, inscriptions similar to those which they left on the Irtish, and in those parts of Siberia where they were once settled. When they came to America, for want of settled habitations, and of the materials to write with, the culture of literature was inevitably lost. The great extent of the country and its various regions, as they