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Judge Dean, whose family removed from New England to 

 the banks of the Susquehanna, when he was very young, 

 graduated at Dartmouth College, before the Revolution, and 

 speut the rest of his life on the frontiers. He filled various 

 posts of trust and honor in his county, and was especially 

 noted for his knowledge of the Indians. This paper had 

 been supposed lost, and was so described in Jones's History 

 of Oneida County. Dr. Hough had discovered it in Utica. 

 The tradition, as here recorded, bore a striking resem- 

 blance to that published in 1825, by David Cusick, the 

 Tuscarora Indian, as current among his people. This 

 tract of Cusick, Dr. Hough also submitted to the Institute. 



Prof. G. W. Hough called the attention of the Institute 

 to a recent article in the Scientific American, describing an 

 instrument for recording music as it is played, of which 

 the mechanism was said to be a secret. He proposed to 

 explain how such a thing .could be done. The method 

 employed (as he supposed) is to cause the keys, in their 

 motion when played upon, to break a complete galvanic 

 circuit, thereby alternately elevating and depressing mag- 

 nets connected with them, and causing marks to be made 

 upon strips of paper, which should be made to pass across 

 the magnets by simple clock work. 



Prof. Hough further suggested a plan for a self-regis- 

 tering barometer, by arranging at different heights in 

 the tube of a syphon barometer, wires connected in a similar 

 way with the galvanic battery and with magnets, so that 

 the mercury in rising and falling should make or break 

 the circuit, and cause in the former case the magnets to 

 work upon paper moving under them by clock work. 



As a modification of this plan, it was suggested to use 

 a float barometer, and have connected with the float a 

 needle, which should mark upon paper prepared in the 

 same manner as for Bain's telegraph.. 



