Under the 7th argument he says: “In conformity to, or after the manner of the Jews, the Indian Americans have their prophets, high priests, and others of a religious order, As the Jews hada sanctum sanctorum, (holy of holies) so have all the Indian nations. There they deposit their consecrated vessels ;—none of the laity daring to approach that sacred place. The Indian tradition says, that their fathers were possessed of an extraordinary divine spirit, by which they foretold things future, and controiled the common. course of nature: and this they transmitted to their offspring, provided they obeyed the sacred laws annexed to it. aioli (Mr. Adair says of those Indians) is the name of all their priestly order: and their pontifical office descends by inheritance to the eldest. There are some traces of agreement, though chiefly lost, in — their pontifical dress. Before the Indian Archimagus officiates in making the supposed holy fire for the yearly atonement for sin, the sagan (waiter of the high priest) clothes him with a white ephod, which isa waistcoat without sleeves. In resemblance of the Urim and Thummim, the American Archimagus wears a breast plate made of a white conch-shell with two holes bored in the middle of it, through which he puts the ends of an otter~skin strap, and fastens a buck horn white button to the outside of each, as if in imitation of the precious stones of the Urim.