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Show < ns “f 114 : THE PRE * ee aid Be! x | Pes ; = "Sa : j I1OWS. af sno% a 5 1PerY deep and ice, ; with : . it being always winter, er a aon atinllow. shallow; narro W great misST Tull : of islands, where they had suffered 7 Zz Swe: place one in was which lake, reat ee \ traversed a people, and had wicked + habited by very Sabie -oee7 ‘\% ' ce AAT a > t > | Grieve’s covers > PBL la body of earth has since been collected to the ae a 5 ai 79 Doctor Boudinot speaks of . =} of a man’s heignt. > 3 8) tradition among the Indians. < Some of ther } rye S) obstructing water a river, and some a lake, And ee he ~ assures us the Indian tradition 1s, ‘“that nine 5 ee ps : ¥ their nation, ~ out of ten, passed over the ris” ee ther eee ts striking et descriphion wet)mecasnt =| ee Oi: 5 y: ° ion is- oe ere oun 5 i GaAse from the seg eer of this continent,st over | aeaa. a the north west oO of America, . a f Tc aits. aa Asia. c « ~Ve tmiles a * gmiuies These to f Wi Straits, all agree, are po ° zon ° wide, le, at this I period; " nd aDoctor “$= been continually widening. a ees noe ly ey 3 Provab wide. Ana ago. rears + es 1h 1ey =f Wiliams. his they ; na I ” says, adition he Indi: ATAR ; tradtt Indian away: as the wched Jinot : washed AWAY 5 been °33 a ae as In Dr. sea is eating them up ;” 2 : islands, the Indian of islands, were fuil‘| . of ay lave ae is ; SS 3 Many of those islands may | Ma us. = dition assures It rt eighteen miles not were they cobably : dou UC on oe e ino ks remote |! Other tribes assure us that their r W” tha ; toagreupatrmve his country,e “came the river God dried their way to this raditionary nouon they could not pass; when among the Indians of God's anciently got aaa pee of riv‘Their fathers 1n seein i a before their ancestors. And having a tradi over Beeriny’s Straits. ers being dried up before the fathers, 7 n - t up ine ; “ ‘ ee migu ey ie VY -mr17ear oye iz serach - 2 - » a a hain a r . = DEC” had alter t have been frozen over. strat nose traray event. i Phocec thisP27. ed for a time there, might have Dc they might have y islands; ieor they sfle betv n the the narrows ; betwee 4 RA ; 4 : : a aie fea 1 % z * WO = 3% ©. fa ¢ ie? OOO, 4 ~* a ee 4% 3 ae <M ~ Fe z a Zé: ae PAO C ass «ee ze ae oa a - : i, Te F“ Os = es etsOS 2 ‘ieey ci ee Gia Ss *- : BPS 2 ¥as eee if - aba ‘<8 5): :* £ “2 é F natives event in their tradition. Doctor Boudinot gives it as ships might made their way from good | se authority), Cee tradition “ that the book which \rae _ they had this boox, things Sie) ‘ so that _ the white people have was once theirs. ecritic ae Here, then, those ‘that the Indians have a is ao " BE , oe) : ‘ . ; passing of the ae Pte ee tas in abundance; to this land; and brought down the knowledge of this ; s ro ; + history we are informed that copper there the shore quished. , . 9 i ae Some give acyemainder refused and'staid behind. Whata others not. it: 7 “\ % ty 115 easily be loaded withit. The Gazetteer speaks of this, and that an attempt was made in 1770 to obtain this copper, but that the ice even in July, was so abundant, and other difficulties such, that the object was relin- iaa xa ISRAEL. from the vast quantities of this metal there foand:~ In re At the Copper Mine River, wnere Pia Meee. the ois lind the oe,ground ; was : covered with copper, over ‘ is c ' AND been passed by canoes, or other craft. The natives of this land, be they who they may, did in fact arrive in this continent; and they probably must have come over those straits. And this might have been done by Isracl, as well as by any other people. Relative to their tradition of coming” where was abundance of copper; it is a fact, that at, or near Beeriug’s Straits, there is a place called Copper Island, ing M'Kenzie gives the follow half’s: journey. Indians, f far to the north. ewyan fad Chep 7 ce oulang of the among ‘ They have also a tradition He says, , sete west. = m another country,j fro f e came cam y lvy ail inai gin ariv ori y tw 3 Ls ee Dar orc | em, that the ith Fs JUDAH | d F <4 OF few or pre tee Pay bana T32 - SENT STATE vy ‘That while went well with them; they prospered exceedingly ; but that other people got it from them; that the Indians lost their credit; effend\ed the Great Spirit, and suffered exceedingly from the neighboring nations; and that the Great Spirit then took pity on them, and directed them to this country.” There can be no doubt but God did, by his special providence, direct them to some sequestered region of the world, for the reasons given. which have been alr eady M’ Kenzie adds the following accounts of the Chepewyan nation; * They believe aiso that in ancient times, their ancestors lived till their feet were worn Cul with walking, and their throats with eating, They describe a deluze, when the waters spread over the Whole earth, except the highest mouataios; on the tops of which they preserved themselves.” This tradition of the longevity 3 of the ancient | s, and of the flood, ie rael, have been from the word of God in ancient Is- a7 . |
