Editorial note — Observations, and arguments, in proof of the American Indians being descended from the Jews. (continued 4)

XXXIX. As the Indians carry their enemies scalps on small branches of evergreen pine, and wave the martial trophies on a pine-branch before YO He Wah; I cannot help thinking that the pine was the emblematical tree so often mentioned in divine writ, by the plural name, Shittim; especially as the mountain Cedar, comparatively speaking, is low and does not seem to answer the description of the inspired writers; besides that כפר Chepher is figuratively applied to the mercy-seat, signifying, literally, a screen, or cover against storms; which was pitched over with the gum of the pine-tree.