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Adair's History of the American Indians

Note 49 — Observations, and arguments, in proof of the American Indians being descended from the Jews. (continued 3)

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Adair presses the argument of Jewish descent too far as respects the hog as food. Williams, Memoirs of Timberlake, 72; Bartram’s Observations, 47. However, Cotton Mather in his Life of John Eliot says of the Northern tribes: “They have a great unkindness for our swine.”

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