1847.] 



JVotes on the Iroquois — Ex-ports. 



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JYofeson the Iroquois, or Contributions to American History, An- 

 tiquities and General Ethnology, by Henry R. Schoolcraft, 

 Hon. Member of the Royal Soc. of J\'orthern Antiquaries, etc. 

 Albany : Erastus H. Pease ^- Co., 82 State street. J. Munsell, 

 Printer, 1847— pp. 498. 



The work with the above title is an enlarged and corrected 

 edition of Mr. Schoolcraft's Notes on the Iroquois, published in 

 1846 as a Legislative document. More than two hundred pages 

 have been added to this volume, which had not been given to the 

 public before. The report of 1846 was regarded by its author as 

 imperfect. The Notes as they now appear, in their enlarged, im- 

 proved and corrected form, embrace all the main facts which are 

 known respecting the Iroquois; it hence becomes an important 

 historical work which throws much light upon the difficulties at- 

 tending the early settlement of this country by the Europeans, and 

 which should be read in connection with their early history. 

 This, however, is only a secondary use of this work, there is still 

 another subject upon which it treats, viz. the Alleghans, the 

 mound builders probably. It seems to us that the way at least is 

 now opened to the successful prosecution of the history of this 

 people, which has hitherto been so obscure. We have only room 

 to say this much upon Mr. Schoolcraft's work. At some future 

 time we may make some extracts which will give our readers a 

 better idea of the work. 



EXPORTS. 



Statement of the value of the exports of the growth, produce 

 and manufacture of the United States for the year ending 30th 

 June, 1845 and 1846, copied from the N. Y. Cour. and Enquir. 



Fisheries. 

 Dried fish or codfislieries, 

 Pickled fish or river fishe- 

 ries, (herring, shad, sal- 

 mon, mackerel.) 



Whale and other fish oil, : 



Spermaceti oil, 



Whalebone,- 



1845. 



&03,353 



208,654 

 ,520,363 

 975,195 

 r62.G42 



230,495 

 946,298 

 697,570 

 583.870 

 295,606 



Spermaceti candles. 236,917 



$4,507,124 $3,453,398 

 THE FOREST. 



Skins and furs, 1,248,355 1,003.009 



Ginseng, 177. 146 237^572 



$1,425,501 $1,300,571 



Product of Wood. 

 Staves, shingles, boards, 



hewn timber, 1,953,222 2,319,443 



Olherlumber, 309,505 324,979 



Masts and spars, 28,692 21,582 



Oak, bark and other dye, 70,616 61,382 



All manufactures of wood 677,420 957,790 

 Naval stores — tar, pitch, 



rosin, turpentine, 814,969 1.085,712 



Ashes, pot and pearl, 1,210,496 735,689 



$5,124,920 $5,506,677 



AGRICULTURE. 

 Product of Animals. 



Beef, tallow, hides, horn- 

 ed cattle, 1,926,809 2,474,208 



Butter and cheese, 878,865 1,063,087 



