1. The Nestorians, or the Lost Tribes, containing Evidence of their Identity, an Account of their Manners, Customs and Ceremonies, with Sketches of Travel in ancient Assyria, Armenia, Media and Mesopotamia, and Illustrations of Scriptural Prophecy. By Ashbel Grant, M. D. 2.The Remnant found, or the Place of Israel's Hiding Discovered. By the Rev. Jacob Samuel, Senior Missionary to the Jews, for India, Persia, and Arabia; Author of a Hebrew Sermon on the "Evidences of Christianity," and a Journal of Five Months' Residence in Cochin [pp. 59-87]

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worship of images among these, is sufficient to keep the Nestorians separated~from them, as they detest this worship.
Dr. Grant has hroiight forward a number of particulars,
in which the domestic and civil customs of the Nestorians
bear a remarl~ahle similarity to those of the ancient llebrews.
~Te have not room to introdi~ce any of these details, hut the
curious reader will find them in the ninth chapter of the
second part of this volume.
Upon a review of the whole subject7 we are led to inake
the followitig remarks
~Ve do not know whence the opinion has arisen, that there
was somethiiig mysterious and extraordinary in the history
of the ten tribes. If they have h~en lost sight of, and have
been long unknown, nothing has occurred in regard to~them,
but what has happened to nearly all the nations of antiquity.
By continual wars, revolutions, captivities, and voluntary
emigrations, the descendants of all ancient n~tions have become so mingled and amalgamated, that no one can now
ascertain the descendants of any people, however great and
powerft~l, who formerly iiil~abited any particular country.
To this general fact, the Jews furnish, the solitary exception. And their case is so singular in comparison with
other ancient nations, that their remaining for so many centuries distinct from the nations among whom d~ey have been
dispersed, has appeared to many a kind of standing miracle;
at any rate, all have acknowledged that their case is singular and remarkable. If, then, the ten trihes have been lost
by beii~g nungled with the nations among whom they lived,
nothing extraordinary has occurred; but that has happened
to them, which has to almost all ancient nations. Their
descendants may be so mingled with other nations that they
can no longer be distinguished, or their relation to the ancient Israelites identified. And we know of no important
reason why it should be assumed as true, that these tribes
must still exist in a distinct national state. Because this has
been the fact in regard to the descendants of the Jews inhabiting Palestine, it furnishes no proof that the same thing
must have happened to the ten tribes. Our author does indeed attempt to prove from prophecy, that they were to
i'emain a distinct people until re-united to the other two
tribes, but the evidence appears to us feeble, and the reasoning in support of the position obscure. If Dr. Grant has
found these lost tribes, and can identify them, we shall be
well pleased with the discovery; but we do not see its importance.