Excerpt from The Welch Indians, or a Collection of Papers Respecting a People Whose Ancestors Emigrated From Wales to America, in the Year 1170: With Prince Madoc (Three Hundred Years Before the First Voyage of Columbus), And Who Are Said Now to Inhabit a Beautiful Country on the West Side of the Mississippi Permit me to introduce to your compassionate notice a numerous and long-neglected race of men, originally Britons, and still retaining the ancient British language, but separated by the vast Atlantic from this illumined isle for more than six hundred years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.