This great _Tartary_, which is a thousand Leagues long, and six hundred broad, reckons five chief Provinces, _viz._ the wild _Tartary_, inhabited by Herdsmen; _Sagatai_, of which the Metropolis is _Samarcand_, famous for the mighty _Tamerlane_; next _Turkestan_; then _Kitai_, which the great _Cham_ Commands; and lastly, _Old Tartary_, according to _Andreas Cæsariensis_, the habitation of _Gog_ and _Magog_. Now we must enquire from what _Tartars_ the _Americans_ are Extracted: [Sidenote: _Thrian_ l. 67.] [Sidenote: If the _Israelites_ were _Tartars_.] _Mornæus_, _Postellus_, _Genebrardus_, _Poterus_, and others are of opinion, That the _Tartars_, which about the year 1228. under the Command of _Zingis Cham_ overspread the Earth like a deluge, were the Successors of the ten Tribes of _Israel_, which were carry’d into captivity to _Assyria_ by _Salmanazar_. The name _Tartary_, or rather _Tattaria_, seems to be some testimony thereof, because it signifies in the _Syrian_ or _Hebrew_ Tongue, _Remnants_ or _Remainders_, as seemingly, because these _Tartarians_ were remainders of the foremention’d Tribes; nay, the Northern _Tartary_ Herdsmen preserve to this day the Names _Dan_, _Zabulon_, and _Naphthali_: Wherefore we need not to admire, why so many _Jews_ are found in _Russia_, _Sarmatia_, and _Liefland_; nay, the nearer to _Tartary_, the more _Jews_ there are. Circumcision hath a long time been observ’d among them, before _Mahomet_ brought in his new Law; it seems, that _Mahomet_ order’d the Circumcision and other Laws, according to _Moses_, to be observ’d by the Northern people, because that in his time, they began to Rebel, that so they might the better be kept in awe by their new Religion. [Sidenote: _Pand. Hist. Turcica._] _Joannes Leonclavius_ relates, That in _Liefland_ near _Riga_, he heard the wilde Natives call’d _Letti_, not without great admiration, go crying along the High-Ways and Fields, with a doleful voice, _Jeru, Jeru, Masco lou_: It is believ’d that they mourn for _Jerusalem_ and _Damascus_; but by their long continuance in the vast Wildernesses, they have forgot their Religion and Laws, and what else might enable to tell us who they were. Several learned Authors question this removal of the _Israelites_ out of _Assyria_ to _Tartary_, though to our Judgement their Arguments are too weak, to take from them of the footing they have gotten there; yet nevertheless, the _Israelites_ are not to be taken for the Planters of _America_, for why else is not _Judaisme_ as well found in _America_ as in _Tartary_. But it is already shewn, that _America_ was inhabited long before the dispersion of the _Israelites_. [Sidenote: _Americans_ are not deriv’d from _Africa_ nor _Europe_.] [Sidenote: But _Asia_, and chiefly out of _Tartary_.]