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Having endeavoured to afcertain the origin and defcent of the North- American Indians and produced a variety of arguments that incline my own opinion in favour of their being of Jewifti extraction which at the fame time furnifh the public with a more complete INDIAN SYSTEM of reli gious rites, civil and martial cuftoms, language, &c. &c. than hath ever been exhibited, neither disfigured by fable, nor prejudice I mail proceed to give a general hiftorical defcription of thofe Indian nations among whom I have chiefly refided.

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