Tete de Boule Indians. 39 



to be valued at " a button in a man's cap." Nor will they 

 probably be tiie last of the same kind. There is no exag- 

 geration in this sketch— I have merely repeated what I 

 heard, and which, for the most part, the corresponding 

 testimony of different persons tended to corroborate. — 

 Indeed what 1 have penned bears so small a proportion to 

 the mass of information of the kind given to us, that my 

 most difficult task has been to condense what I have heard 

 related, so as not to run the risk of proving very tiresome 

 to the society, and in consequence I have been obliged to 

 omit much of Mhat, to myself, appeared interesting 

 enough. I will conclude by observing that, should these 

 slight remarks on the TCte de Boule Indians, induce a 

 desire for more particular information concerning them, I 

 know no one so well qualified to complete a more perfect 

 account of them, from constant and well directed enquirv, 

 as another member of this society, my respected companion 

 on the late expedition, Mr. Nixon, of the G6th regiment. 



Notes on some of the Plants of Lower Canada, 

 I III) \\ . Si \ Y. I' i> A III ), of Woodfield, Esq. V. P. 



Urail VJIh December, 18-J'J, .ih(/ 19</i January, 1830. 



I.N laying before the society, a few observations made on 

 fconie of the vegetable productions of our neighbourhood, I 

 have to crave your indulgence for taking up your time on u 

 mbject of but parlial interest. Theac(piisition of knowledge 

 in the various branches of Natural IIi.>«torv, I reirrel to sav 



