The linguistic evidences were not brought into prominence till after one Morgan Jones had fallen among the Tuscaroras[699] in 1660, and found, as he asserted, that they could understand his Welsh. He wrote a statement of his experience in 1685-6, which was not printed till 1740.[700] During the eighteenth century we find Campanius in his _Nye Swerige_ (1702) repeating the story; Torfæus (_Hist. Vinlandiæ_, 1705) not rejecting it; Carte (_England_, 1747) thinking it probable; while Campbell (_Admirals_, 1742), Lyttleton (_Henry the Second_, 1767), and Robertson (_America_, 1777) thought there was no ground, at least, for connecting the story with America. It was reported that in 1764 a man, Griffeth, was taken by the Shawnees to a tribe of Indians who spoke Welsh.[701] In 1768, Charles Beatty published his _Journal of a two months’ Tour in America_ (London), in which he repeated information of Indians speaking Welsh in Pennsylvania and beyond the Mississippi, and of the finding of a Welsh Bible among them. In 1772-73, David Jones wandered among the tribes west of the Ohio, and in 1774, at Burlington, published his _Journal of two visits_, in which he enumerates the correspondence of words which he found in their tongues with his native Welsh.[702] Without noting other casual mentions, some of which will be found in Paul Barron Watson’s bibliography (in Anderson’s _America not discovered by Columbus_, p. 142), it is enough to say that towards the end of the century the papers of John Williams[703] and George Burder[704] gave more special examination to the subject than had been applied before. [Illustration: A BRITISH SHIP. After a cut in _The Mirror of Literature_, etc. (London, 1823), vol. i. p. 177, showing a vessel then recently exhumed in Kent, and supposed to be of the time of Edward I, or the thirteenth century. The vessel was sixty-four feet long.]