A view of the American Indians: their general character, customs, language, public festivals, religious rites, and traditions: shewing them to be the descendants of the Ten Tribes of Israel. The language of prophecy concerning them, and the course by which they travelled from Media into America / By Israel Worsley.

  • Worsley, Israel, 1768-1836.
Date:
1828
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Credit: A view of the American Indians: their general character, customs, language, public festivals, religious rites, and traditions: shewing them to be the descendants of the Ten Tribes of Israel. The language of prophecy concerning them, and the course by which they travelled from Media into America / By Israel Worsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    P ft E F A € E. rjn A HE subject that is treated of in these pages engaged the attention of the Inhabitants of the United States but too late, to obtain that clear investigation which is necessary for a full understanding of any subject. References to it and statements of facts which afford us an early light, are found in some of the public prints, and in Letters and Travels previous to the year 1816, when a volume was published at Trenton, New Jersey, by the Rev. Dr. Elias Boudinot, which bears for its title, A Star in the West, or a humble attempt to discover the long lost Ten Tribes of Israel. He gives the following account of himself and of his work. f This subject has occupied the attention of the writer, at times, for more than forty years. He was led to the consideration of it, in the first instance, by a conversation with a very worthy and reverend clergyman of his ac¬ quaintance, who, having an independent fortune, under¬ took a journey, in company with a brother clergyman, who was desirous of attending him, into the wilderness between the Alleghany and Mississippi rivers, some time in or about the years 1765 or 6, before the white people