A list of those who wrote after Adair’s period in attempts at corroboration of the theory of such origin would include, among others: The celebrated Jonathan Edwards; Elias Boudinot, in _A Star of the West_ (1816) which book has long extracts from Adair; E. Howitt in his _Selection from Letters_ (1820); Ethan Smith (1825); Israel Worsley in his _View of the American Indians_ (1828); Calvin Colton in _A Tour of the Lakes_ (1838); Josiah Priest, _American Antiquities_ (1834); Mrs. Simons in _The Ten Tribes_ (1836); Modecai M. Noah in Marryatt’s _Diary in America_ (1837), and G. Jones in the _History of Ancient America_ (1843)—not to mention later writers. It will be noted that Jewish writers and observers are in accord.[i27] “The theory has not entirely disappeared from ethnological literature.” Lord Viscount Kingsborough produced by far the most elaborate argument that the ancients and Indians of America were of Jewish origin. He published (London, 1830-48) nine sumptuous volumes, imperial folio, in which many ancient Spanish, French and Mexican manuscripts were for the first time printed. This exhaustive work cost Lord Kingsborough, it is said, above 32,000 pounds, wrecked his fortune and lost him his life. He died a prisoner for debt. In this production Kingsborough reprinted the first part of Adair’s book—the “Arguments.” Kingsborough bestowed much research and care in the annotation of these “Arguments,” and the editor of the present reprint has availed freely of his notes. Kingsborough thus prefaces his notes: “The following illustrations of Adair’s _History of the American Indians_ are chiefly extracted from the inedited works of French and Spanish authors, and afford the most satisfactory proof of Adair’s veracity in the minutest particular.” Of the entire _History_ of Adair there has never been a reprint in English. Kingsborough’s work is beyond the reach of the average reader or student; it has become excessively rare, bringing about $500 in the book market. The book of Adair was translated into German by Schack Hermann Ewald and published in Germany: _Geschichte der amerikanischen Indianer, besondere dem am Mississippi, am Ostund Westflorida, Georgien, Sud-und Nord-Karolina und Virginien angrenzenden nationen, nebst einem anhange, von James Adair, Esquire. Aus dem englischen übers._ Breslau, J. E. Myers, 1782. The book of Adair was paid the unwanted compliment of being plagiarized by Jonathan Carver in his _Travels through the Interior Parts_. Carver appropriated portions of the work during Adair’s lifetime, and an edition of his book was brought out by Charles Dilly, “in the Poultry,” London, who had printed Adair’s _History_. After the passage of more than a century and a half from the date of its original publication, the book comes to a sort of rebirth in this reprint, and in a style, so far as format is concerned, of which our maker and writer of history would not be ashamed. ----- Footnote i1: