. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... UNITED STATES BATTLESHIP INDIANA STRANGE PEOPLE IN A STRANGE LAND. 2( I. The Jewish theory. Some sixty yearssince Major Noah maintained that the LostTribes were the ancestors of the AmericanIndians and the builders of the ruins de- such a people as the Jews could, in a fewcenturies, lose all trace of their language,religion, laws, form of government, art,science and general knowledge, and sink into. A DEAD TOWN OF THE MOQUIS INDIANS. ^cribed; and a few other
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... UNITED STATES BATTLESHIP INDIANA STRANGE PEOPLE IN A STRANGE LAND. 2( I. The Jewish theory. Some sixty yearssince Major Noah maintained that the LostTribes were the ancestors of the AmericanIndians and the builders of the ruins de- such a people as the Jews could, in a fewcenturies, lose all trace of their language,religion, laws, form of government, art,science and general knowledge, and sink into. A DEAD TOWN OF THE MOQUIS INDIANS. ^cribed; and a few others held that, if notthe Ten Tribes, there was a Jewish would certainly be an amazing thing if a tribe of barbarians. But when we addthat their bodily shape must have completelychanged, their skulls lengthened, the bear<^ 22 DISCOVERY OF THE WESTERN CONTINENT. dropped from their faces, and their lan-guage undergone a reversion from a deriv-ative to a primitive type—a thing unknownin any human tongue—the supposition be-comes too monstrous even to be discussed. 2. The Malay theory is that a grjatMalay Empire, once existing in the island ofMalaysia, planted colonies here; but this iseasily disproved. Works of the Phoenicians. 3. The Phoenician theory: that thoseancient navigators planted colonies in Amer-ica. If correct, this would be certain ofdemonstration ; for they were pre-eminentlya people of letters and monuments. ThePhoenician alphabet is the parent of all thealphabets of Europe except the must
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