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Excerpt from National Quarterly Review, Vol. 33
Nothing could be farther from our present purpose than to attempt an examination of these different claims. Yet, as bear ing somewhat upon our subject, it has been thought not alto gether irrelevant to give a brief outline of the more important theories adopted.
One historian, * for example, is fully persuaded that the original settlers here were Carthaginians and Jews. The Carthaginians being a commercial people sent their emissaries over the world, among other places to the western hemisphere. This system of emigration proving hurtful to the State, the Carthaginian Senate put a sudden stop to it, and so those who had been left upon this continent were cut off from communi cation with the mother country, and turned barbarians. As to the native Brazilians, the learned Portuguese declared that the institution of circumcision alone was needed to render their similarity to the Israelites perfect.
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