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13. Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Condition of 
the North American Indians, written during eight years’ travel among 
the wildest tribes of Indians in North America in 1832, °33, °34, °35, 
736, °37, °38, °39; by Grorce Cartin. In two volumes, pp. 534, with 
four hundred illustrations carefully engraved from his original paintings. 
_ This is a very extraordinary work—one which no reader who has 
once begun to peruse, will willingly lay down until it is finished. 
It presents a high example of a peculiar kind of enthusiasm, in a man 
who possessed fine qualifications for his wild, romantic undertaking ; 
which, however, appears chastened into right-minded sobriety, when we. 
duly estimate the benevolence which beams in every page. 
Mr. Catlin is now too well known on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean 
to justify an introduction by us to the public. Thousands on thousands 
saw his pictures of Indian features, persons and costume, with his liv- 
ing delineations of the noble scenery of their wide-spreading country ; 
which with their utensils, arms, clothing, lodges, and even preserved 
Sealps of those whom they slew as enemies, form a most unique and 
interesting museum; and thousands listened also in New York, to Mr. 
Catlin’ 8 spirited and graphic conversation and lectures, before his em- 
‘kation for Europe. — 
This museum, now removed to London, is probably lost forever to 
this country, and with it the magnificent Chinese museum of Mr. Na 
Dunn,—two collections so peculiar that they can never be replaced, and 
of which the-final departure for the world’s were, mere: redounds | 
little to the honor of our country. 
‘aised a monument to the memory of the American 
seem to ma if A to require the same spirit in the author, traveller, 
ae —- in a manner so attract- 
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