MALTE-BRUN MANUSCRIPTS. 475 
Manuscripts — coDtinueil. 
nislied with a list of them by Mrs. Erminnie A. Smith, an employ^ of the Bureau 
of Ethnology, who is engaged in the preparation of a grammar and dictionary 
of the various dialects of the Iroquois. A number of these manuscripts are 
anonymous, and I have grouped them uuder the above general title. In the 
descriptions, Mrs. Smith was aided by Father Leclaire and the Sisters of the 
convent. They are as follows: 
2442 Dictionnaire AlgonquinFrangais de I'an 1661. 
Manuscript, sm. 4°. Preserved in the archives of the convent at the mission 
of the Lac des deux Montagues. 
This worlc has passed tlirough the hands of M. Mathevette, a former missionary 
at this place, as one clearly sees by an inspection of the cover, which is entirely 
covered with sliort notes in Algonquin written by this missionary ; besides these 
he has made many additions throughout the dictionary. 
Other additions and corrections have been made by the hand of another mis- 
sionary, whose name is not Icnown, but from whom we have a large number of 
Algonquin manuscripts. To this author belong the six pages which end the 
■work. 
These writers were evideiitly very capable men, and already far advanced in 
the knowledge of the language. 
Another anonymous author has compiled a 
2443 Dictionnaire Fran^ais-Algonquin. 
Wliich appears equally ancient. It is not complete, beginning with the letter 
B and ending with the letter T. The mice have partially destroyed it, but the 
remainder is in a readable state. 
The hand of this same author is to be seen in a manuscript of 99 11., containing, 
in abridged Latin and Algonquin, a discourse on Purgatory, and a part of Gen- 
esis in Algonquin. 
The Algonquin-French dictionary of 1661 appears to be the work of a Jesuit 
priest ; the incomplete French- Algonquin, that of a priest of the same order, and 
his contemporary. ■ 
The three works above named were all corrected and augmented by a Jesuit 
Father, who wrote in 1699, and who knew the language perfectly, for he wrote 
concerning the roots of the Algonquin, and also a 
2444 Dictionnaire Fran9ais-AlgODquin. 
This is in a very bad condition ; leaves torn, &c. He also wrote 
2445 Instructions sur les symboles, &c. 
A fifth Jesuit missionary, not less ancient than the preceding, wrote a large 
volume in 18°, well preserved, containing: 
2446 Grammaire, Petit Cat<5chisme, Priferes et Cantiqes. 
Another priest of the same order and epoch has left a fragment of a 
2447 Dictionnaire Frau9ais-Algonquin. 
And a large book of instructions, &c., and a seventh has left a catechism 
which is contaiued in a 1'3° volume, No. 4. 
2448 Cat^ehisme Algonquin. 
140 pp. 4°. Used by the Sisters in teaching the children of their school. The 
one now in use is a copy made, they think, about lifty years ago. Besides the 
catechism it contains many psalm.s and hymns. 
