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fraiii from expressing to you my thanks for this 

 service to the cause of truth. 



The Types are, indeed, the fruits of the mountain 

 that was in labor. From one end of the land to the 

 other, subscribers have been drummed up for this 

 work ; and when it come forth it is a patch-work of 

 infidel papers from the living and the dead, by 

 which we are informed that the Hebrew Chronology 

 is false, that Moses was a demogogue and an im- 

 poster, and that Christianity is a deception. 



Well, if this be all that America is to send back 

 to Europe, after boasting of her rich stores of learn- 

 ing, science, philosophy and religion for three Cen- 

 turies ; it were better that the Aborigines had main- 

 tained their dark empire of pow-wows and jugglers, 

 undisturbed. 



The Indian, had at least, the merit of directness 

 in his theological dogmas, and worshipped the devil 

 without disguise, whereas, such men club their wits 

 in this attack on Christianity, and conceal their real 

 aim under the guise of a philosophical inquiry. 

 Verv sincerelv your friend, 



H. R. S. 



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