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formerly spoke tke same language, some among them under- 
took to erect a large and lofty tower in order to climb into 
heaven. But God (or gods) sending forth a whirlwind frus- 
trated their design, and gave to each tribe a particular lan- 
guage of its own, which (confusion of tongues) is the reason 
that the name is called Babylon.” 
The most striking proof, in my mind, of the confusion of 
languages, and the dispersion of mankind after that event, is 
the widespread affinity existing in different parts of the world 
of Semitic derivation of words. 
The learned Colonel Yallancy says, “ that the descendants 
of Japhet peopled China as well as Tartary, we have no 
reason to doubt (though when they arrived in that country 
we cannot pretend to say), and that the language of the 
Chinese was pretty nearly related to the Hebrew and other 
tongues, which the learned consider as dialects of it, not- 
withstanding what has been advanced to the contrary, we 
own ourselves inclined to believe, Thomasinus, Massonius, 
Rudbeckius, and Pfefferus seem to have proved almost to 
demonstration.” 
Abbe Domenech, who was a missionary in the great deserts 
of North America, says, after seven years* experience, that 
“ we should not, then, be surprised if the language of the 
American natives presents the strange phenomenon of a 
remarkable regularity and richness of expression amidst a 
great poverty of words. Some of the writers who have 
treated on this subject assure us that they have found Hebrew 
and Gaelic names among the idioms of the redskins. We 
believe the more readily in the accuracy of this statement, 
as it is a positive fact that many words, syllables, and sounds 
of these two languages are to be found in those Indian idioms 
that are most probably of Scythian origin.** 
Dr. Edwards, another scrutinizer, discovered a remarkable 
affinity between the Hebrew and the Mohican, one of the 
native languages of North America, in the use of pronouns 
as prefixes or affixes to verbs ; and Adair, in the History of 
the American Indians , asserts that the natives of the New 
World are descendants of the Hebrews, and that a vast 
number of similar words are found among the American 
Indians and the Hebrews. 
Dr. Glass identified many of the words and customs of the 
Sandwich Friendly Isles with those of Hebrew. Other 
travellers, Lord Kingsborough and Abbe Clavigero, also 
found many Hebrew roots and Hebrew customs among the 
Aborigines of Mexico. 
It is supposed that the first language which was spoken 
