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

XLVII. They rubbed the principal stone of each of those heaps all over with oil, as a sacrifice of libation; by which means they often became black, and slippery; as Arnobius relates of the idols of his time; Lubricatum lapidem, et ex olivi unguine fordidatum, tanquam inesset vis presens, adulabar. Arnob. Advers. Gent.

XLVIII. Laban and Jacob raised a heap of stones, as a lasting monument of their friendly covenant. And Jacob called the heap Galeed, “the heap of witness.” Gen. xxxi. 47.