236 NORTH AMERICAN LINGUISTICS. 
Eliot (John) — continued. 
nSi [A Catechism, by John Eliot. 1653-54.] * 
The Commissione.vs of the U. Colonies wrote, Sept. 24, 1653: "Mr. Eliot is 
pve;iariug to print a Catechism in the Indian language," etc. ; and they a\ithor- 
ized the Commissioners for Massachusetts to order the printing of 500 or 1,000 
copies. (Records of Comm'rs, II, 105, lOii.) The uext year, Sept. 25, they wrote: 
"One Catechism is already printed, and Mr. Peirson is preparing another," etc. 
(Id., 120.) Of this little book, which, so far as is known, appears to have been the 
first printed in New England in the Indian language, no copy lias been found. 
A "new impression" was made in 1662. — Triimlull. 
1185 [A Catechism, by John Eliot. Second Impression. 1662.] * 
This "new impression of a Catechism" is mentioned by the Commissioners in 
16til, in their estimate of expenditure for the ensuing year. Mr. Usher was in- 
structed " to take order for reprinting of 1,000 copies" (Eec. U. Cols., II, 260, 265). 
In his account, presented SepL, 1662, is an item for "printing 1,500 catechisms, 
£15.00.00" {ihid., 278). The cost of printing, at this.period, was abont £2.10 per 
sheet, for 1,000 copies (exclnsive of paper, which was supplied by the Corpora- 
tion), and this would notlje increased more tliau twenty per cent, (to £3) by the 
press-work on 500 additional copies. At £3 per sheet, the Catechism must have 
required five sheets (80 piiges, sm. 8°), to bring the cost of the edition to £15. Tliis 
agrees nearly with the charge of paper for printing the first edition in 1054 ; when 
" for the two Catechisms," Eliot's and Peirson's, Green used 30 reams. Not more 
than 144 re.ams was required for Peirson's (4+ sheets per copy, edition of 1,500), leav- 
ing at least 154- for Eliot's, or sufficient for a small 8° of 70 to 75 pages. — TrumhuU. 
1186 [ Wehkoniaonganoo asqnam Peautogig kah asquam Quin- 
luippegig, etc. 
Ctimbridge: Printed by Marmadnke Johnson, 1664.] * 
Baxter's Call to the Unconverted, translated by Eliot. On the last page is 
"Finitur, 1563, December 31." It was "printed and dispersed" in an edition of 
1,000 copies, before Sept., 1664. — Trumbull. 
1187 Wehkomaouganoo | asquam | Peantogig | kah asquam 
Quiiinuppegig, | Tokonogque mahche woskeche Peau- | tamwog. 
Onk woh sampwuttea- | hae Peantamwog. | Wutanakausuonk wun- 
neetounoh | nohtompeantog. | — | Ussowesu Mr. Kichard Baxter. | 
Kah I Yeuyeu qushkinnumun en Iiidiane | Wuttiunoutcowaonga- 
nit. I Wussohsam»\Tontamunat ccwesuonk | God ut Christ Jesus 
ut, kah I ooneneheonat Indiausog. | Ezek. 33. 11. | Qushkek, qush- 
kek, tohwhutch woh nuppok, woi Israeles weh. | 
Cambindge: | Printed by S. G. for the Corporation in London | 
for the Indians in New England 1688. | MHS. P. 
183 pp. 18°. Second edition of Baxter's Call. 
1188 Manitowompae | Pomantamoonk: | Sampwshanau | Chris- 
tianoh | Uttoli woh an | Pomantog | Wussikkitteahouat | God. | 
I Tim. 4. 8. I Maiiitooouk ohtoxmcc quoshoatuongash yeuyeu ut po- 
man- | taaicconganit kah ue paomxug. | 
Cambridge: | Printed in the Year 1665. | AAS. 
397 and 3 unnumbered pp. 16°. Eliot's abridged translation of The Practice 
of Piety, by Lewis Bayly, Bishop of Bangor. 
Translation. — Godly Living: Directs a-Cbristian how he may live to-please 
God. 
