Cognation of the Jews and Lacedæmonians

I should occupy too much space in your interesting publication were I to give a list of the critics or ethnographers who have commented on this passage, and shall therefore be content to mention some of the most important works which may afford sufficient information, or at least enable your correspondent to pursue the inquiry farther. Calmet's *Dissertation sur la Parenté des Juifs et des Lacédémoniens*, which is included in his Dissertations, Paris, 1720, in 3 vols. 4to, and also in his *Commentaires*.—Stillingfleet's *Origines Sacræ*, book iii., c. 4., who admits the probability that the Sp…