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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXII (search)
the regular wants and infirmities of the human system, would be likely of themselves to be repeated; and, as for inventions and arts, they only offer new sources for measuring the capacity of human invention in its barbarous or semi-civilized state. It is chiefly on supposed analogies of customs and of language, that the lost tribes of Israel, who took II. Esdras, c XIII. v. 40-45 counsel to go forth into a farther country, where never mankind dwelt, have been discovered, now in the Boudinot, &c bark cabins of North America, now in the secluded Adair valleys of the Tennessee, and again, as the authors of Aglio's Antiquities of Mexico, vol. VI. culture, on the plains of the Cordilleras. We cannot tell the origin of the Goths and Celts; proud as we are of our lineage, we cannot trace our own descent; and we strive to identify, in the most western part of Asia, the very hills and valleys among which the ancestors of Chap. XXII.} our red men had their dwellings! Humanity has