Among these the first named is one of the oldest, and at the same time, has yet a powerful hold upon many minds; it ascribes the whole American population with one hundred languages and one thousand dialects, myriads of ruins and monuments, _to the Jews_! either of the ten dispersed tribes, who were not Jews but Israelites--or of Solomon's time and voyages, while the Jews only began to exist as such after his death--or of patriarchal times antecedent to their existence, when they were only OBRIM, whom we miscall _Hebrews_, or going still further back to the times of Noah and Peleg, when not even the Obrim had any existence. It has been proved that the American nations did not possess the use of the plough, iron, alphabets, or week of seven days, which no Jewish nor Hebrew descendants could have forgotten. The American languages have as much, or more affinities with the Sanscrit, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Persian, Berber, Turkish, &c., languages, than with the old and modern Hebrew and Arabic. The Jews or IEUDI, who only began two thousand four hundred years ago were not navigators; therefore it is evident that they cannot have come to America and produced here the two thousand nations and tribes of this vast continent: nay, not even a single one of them perhaps. The Mongolic opinion, lately revived by Ranking, is the most extravagant of all, since it ventures to assert seriously, and derive all these nations and languages from late colonies of Mongols within less than one thousand years ago, who came to America over the ice, bringing with them tame elephants for sport, that are since become the fossil elephants and mammoths buried in our diluvial or alluvial soil--to state these absurdities is a sufficient refutation, every man of any reading and scientific knowledge will perceive the impossibility. Galindo and Josiah Priest have quite lately revived also the opinion of some dreaming philosophers who had asserted that America was the _cradle of mankind_ or one of them, instead of Central Asia. Galindo allows, however, the Caucasian race of men to be distinct; but he says--"_The hum_a_n[TN-6] race of America I must assert to be the most ancient on the globe_;[TN-7]"[8-*] He goes on to state that to the primaeval civilization of America must be assigned a great and indefinite antiquity, leaving however no palpable monuments; but sending colonies to civilize China and Japan! is not this preposterous? where are the proofs either from traditions, languages, monuments or other sources?