Note 80 — Observations, and arguments, in proof of the American Indians being descended from the Jews. (continued 5)

To same effect: Jones, Antiquities of Southern Indians, 202, citing Brickell’s Natural History of North Carolina, 380; and see Swanton, Lower Tribes, 365. Starr, a Cherokee historian, says that these aboriginal burial customs were abandoned for those of the white race, by 1800. Early History of the Cherokees, 20.