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had the blood of his adopting father. En. ch 2. v. 10. Esther, ch 2. v. 7, 15 - 1 Dub: 340." - 372.

"There is not among our Indians any emblem of the resurrection; not of the tradition of any miraculous performance; nor, in short, any of those striking facts which are recorded in the New Testament, nor even of the destruction of the Temple by the Romans, an event which dispersed the Jews into all parts of the world, and particularly into Mesopotamia & Medea, then under the power of the Parthians. (Jos. War. f.2. - Ch: 16 : sec. 4.) Numbers of these Jews had been converted to the Christian faith; and no doubt maintained a correspondence with their brethren in Medea & on the Oxus. Nor is there to be found in America the vestige of any art or science, or improvement in either, which originated subsequently to the 3d century of the Christian era. The Roman coins are the latest." p: 373.

"The coins found in Tennesee or Kentucky may be thus traced: From some place contiguous to the borders both of the Roman & Persian empires, where they contended for supremacy, & paid these coins to the soldiers who served in their armies, by whom they were circulated amongst the nations of Scythia, which deposited them, in their migrations, at the place where they are now found. - Such wars were