Excerpt from Discourse on the Evidences of the American Indians, Being the Descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel Delivered Before the Mercantile Library Association, Clinton HallIt is a singular fact that history is exceedingly confused, or rather I may say dark, respecting the ultimate dispersion of the tribes among the cities of the Medes. The last notice we have of them is from the second Book of Esdras, which runs thus.Whereas thou sawest another peaceable multitude these are the ten tribes which were carried away prisoners out of their own land in the time of Osea, whom Salmanazar King of As syria led away captive, and he carried them over the waters, so they came unto another land.They took this counsel among themselves that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go into a further country wherein never mankind dwelt, that they might there keep their statutes, which they never kept in their own land, (assyria, ) and there was a great way to go, namely a year and a half.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.