Mexico; but that the greatest part of their civil and religious system, is a strong old picture of the Israelitish, much less defaced than might be reasonably expected from the circumstances of time and place. Footnote XXV: ——Lanatis animalibus abstinet omnis Mensa; nefas illic fætum jugulare capellæ. JUVENAL, Sat. xv. Footnote XXVI: The Hebrews had two presidents in the great synhedrion. The first was called _Nashe Yo_, “a prince of God.” They elected him on account of his wisdom: The second was called _Rosh Ha-Yoshibbah_, “the father of the assembly:” he was chief in the great council. And _Ab beth din_, or “the father of the consistory,” sat at his right hand, as the chief of the seventy-two, of which the great synhedrion consisted, the rest sitting according to their merit, in a gradual declension from the prince, to the end of the semicircle. The like order is observed by the Indians,—and _Jer._ ii. 27, God commanded the Israelites, that they should not turn their backs to him, but their faces toward the propitiatory, when they worshipped him. I remember, in Koosah, the uppermost western town of the Muskohge, which was a place of refuge, their supposed holiest consisted of a neat house, in the centre of the western square, and the door of it was in the south gable-end close to the white cabbin, each on a direct line, north and south. Every spring season, one town or more of the Missisippi Floridians,[40] keep a great solemn feast of love, to renew their old friendship. They call this annual feast, _Hottuk Aimpa, Heettla, Tanáa_, “the people eat, dance, and walk as twined together”—The short name of their yearly feast of love, is _Hottuk Impanáa_, “eating by a strong religious, or social principle;” _Impanáa_ signifies several threads or strands twisted, or warped together. _Hissoobistarákshe_, and _Yelphòha Panáa_, is “a twisted horse-rope,” and “warped garter[XXVII].” This is also contrary to the usage of the old heathen world, whose festivals were in honour to their chief idols, and very often accompanied with detestable lewdness and debauchery. Footnote XXVII: The name of a horse-rope is derived from _Tarákshe_ “to tie,” and _Hissooba_ “an elk, or horse that carries a burthen;” which suggests that they formerly saw elks carry burthens, though perhaps not in the northern provinces.