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which ever has been in the world, beginning with the letters alpha and beta, contains within itself demonstration of a derivation with all others, from one common original; and since we can trace this art into Egypt prior to the time of the exodus, 1491 before Christ, and into India at a still earlier period (Exodus, ch 17, v. 14: - 1 Dubois, 350, 379, 387, 388) there seems to be incontrovertible evidence, that the inscriptions in America were made by people from the old world; and very probably by Siberian descendants, from the Issachors & Napthalites." 373.

The napthalites n. of the Oxus & on the borders of Caspian sea, at the period of the Chinese conquest about A.D. 367 must have heard of the Christian religion, which had been established in Armenia since A.D. 312 & has continued ever since. Nevertheless, there are no traces of Christianity anywhere on the continent - "This circumstance strongly intimates that the removal of those lettered men into America, preceded the epoch of the Chinese conquests. There are not found in America any burials of bodies with their heads to the west; nor sign of the cross, for the infliction of punishment; no emblem of any baptismal initiation, except the immersion of prisoners, incorporated by adoption into the family of the captor, which was an emblem to signify that his old blood was washed away, and that he now had