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Show ; whore between , the Caspian and Black ! sias, and pushed on from thora into ' Sunnntia, occupying tho country between be-tween the Danube and the Don rivers, ! whence they were driven by tho sttcees- sive invasions of tho Tartu, even as far north as Lapland, Scandinavia, Denmark Den-mark and the British Mrs- spreading ; nil over Europe. j I It is seriously eontendod that the ! Angles, Saxons and delta are undoubted- . lv tho direct descendants of Ephraim and j Manaswh; and that onr thirteen colonies I repri'sented the thirteen tribes which ! I wttli'd in Palestine under the rule of , j Joshua, which colonics were made up ' j mostly of tho descendants of Joseph, j Tlie reasoning by which this teaching ' is urged upnn our accept ance is plausible ; and quite ingenious; but altogether too ! much ha to lie taken for granted. Cor. lioston Transcript. j The I.ot Tribns of Israel. I I wonder if there lias ever been any .correct answer made to tho query, j ''What becamo of the ten lost tribes of Irael?'' Of course nothing certain can j be known as to this matter. Writers j must content themselves with specula- j tsvo opinion based upon hypothesis and j idtocther conjectural. It has becu j nriiod aftt'r this manner that the j f::jr'jtceatl chapter of Iea:ah has refer- t nco to the di'fcuudants of the loet triles i Who Kett'ed North America, but I never j 'oonl.l nee it." These triijes, we are 1 t.wht, settled, at some period after they j tvere carried awafrojjt Plwuiie, souid- i |