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as they were progressively discovered, incessantly invited them, as they now do us, to new migrations; and they had no time to preserve, by learning, the use of the letters which they had. But those letters, and the greater frequency of their inscription in the northern parts of America, point out the direction & course of their migrations: which lead to the like inscriptions in Siberia & Tartary, where once lived, as may be fairly presumed, that people who came into America and made the inscriptions, which we now see. We can trace them to the Igors, and to Sogdonia? and to Samaria."

"The Cherokees & Creeks as well as the Chickasaws, who are supposed to be the descendants of the Igors and the Huns, are of the common size of white men of the present day; having no beards; long jet black hair, & black eyes, thick & blunt noses, short & blunt toes, the under part of the feet remarkably hollow, their fingers thin & long, white teeth; tapering, well formed, legs & thighs, small ankles, their foreheads of the same form & size with those of the white people, their colour a reddish brown, a light copper, & they wear a tuft of hair upon the head. They brought with them both the Mosaic & prophetic writings, as well as those of the psalmist; for their traditions are taken from both & , Hal-le-lu-jah