That this seems to be the true Hebrew pronunciation of the divine essential name, יהוה, JEHOVAH, will appear more obvious from the sound they seem to have given their characters. The Greeks, who chiefly copied their alphabet from the Hebrew, had not _jod_, but ιοτα, very nearly resembling the sound of our _Y_. The ancient Teutonic and Sclavonian dialects, have _Yah_ as an affirmative, and use the consonant _W_ instead of _V_. The high importance of the subject, necessarily would lead these supposed red Hebrews, when separated from other people in America, to continue to repeat the favourite name of God, YO HE WAH, according to the ancient pronunciation. Contrary to the usage of all the ancient heathen world, the American Indians not only name God by several strong compounded appellatives, expressive of many of his divine attributes, but likewise say YAH at the beginning of their religious dances, with a bowing posture of body; then they sing YO YO, HE HE, and repeat those sacred notes, on every religious occasion: the religious attendants calling to YAH to enable them humbly to supplicate, seems to point to the Hebrew custom of pronouncing, יה, _Yah_, which likewise signifies the divine essence. It is well known what sacred regard the Jews had to the four-lettered divine name, so as scarcely ever to mention it, but once a year, when the high-priest went into the holy sanctuary, at the expiation of sins. Might not the Indians copy from them, this sacred invocation? Their method of invoking God, in a {47} solemn hymn, with that reverential deportment, and spending a full breath on each of the two first syllables of the awful divine name, hath a surprizing analogy to the Jewish custom, and such as no other nation or people, even with the advantage of written records, have retained.