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2927 Peintures et Antiquitus mexicaines. • 
la 11. iu black and color, engraved at Paris and Berlin, folio. Fac-simile of 
the Mexican Codex of Berlin, 1 ].; of the Codex preserved at Vienna, Nos. 1 to 3, 
^ 3 II. I of the manuscript of Dresden, 2 11. ; of the Collection of Mendoza, 1 1. 
Hieroglyphic history of the Aztecs from the Deluge to the foundation of Mexico 
(copied irom the work of Geniclli), 1 1. Lunar Calendar of the Muyscas (drawn 
by the Canon Duquesne in 1801, at Santa F6 de Bogota), 1 1. Granite vasea 
found on the coast of Honduras, 1 1. Ruins of Mitla, in the province of Oaxaca, 1 1. 
Aztec Idol, iu basalt, found in the valley of Mexico, 1 \.—Lcclerc, 1878, No. 2332. 
2928 Peirson (Abraham). Some | helps for the | Indians | Shewing 
them I How to improve their natural Eea- | son, To know the True 
God, and | the trne Christian Religion. | 1. By leading them to see 
the Ui- I vine Authority of the Scriptures. | 2. By the Scriptures 
the Divine | Truths necessary to Eternal Salvation. | Undertaken | 
At the Motion, and published by | tiie Order of the Commission- j 
ers of the United Colonies. | by Abraham Peirson. | Examined and 
approved by Thomas | Stanton Interpreter-General to the U- | 
nited Colonies for the Indian Language, \ and by some others of 
the most able | luterpeters [sic] amogst [sic] us. | 
Cambridg, | Printed by Samuel Green 1658. | l. 
Pp. 1-G7. sin. 8". In Indian and English, interlinear throughout. 
"Only 
two copies of this Catechism are known to the editor of the present reprint. One 
of these is in the library of Mr. James Lenox, of New York; the other is iu the 
British Museum. The title-pages of the two ditfcr in several particulars. That 
of Mr. Lenox's copy, which is proved by its agreement with the English reprint 
of the first sheet to be the earlier, has a border of the acorn pattern. The other 
has no border; the lines are longer, and the page less compact. After the title 
proper, ending with the words 'Eternal Salvation,' the Museum copy has — 
" 'By I Abraham Peirson | Pastor of the Church at Brandford [sic]. | — | Ex- 
amined and approved by that | Experienced Gentleman (iu the In- | dian Lan- 
guage) Captain | John Scot. | — | Cambridge: | Printed for Samuel Green, 
1658.' 
"Here no reference appears to the Commissioners of the United Colonies, and 
the imprint, it may be observed, is 'for' (not 'by') Samuel Green. 
"The second title-page of the Catechism, on which he is named as an 'expe- 
rienced gentleman,' may have been prefixed to part of the edition — to all the 
copies, perhaps, which were sent to England about the time of the Restoration, 
and subsequently — with the knowledge of Mr. Peirson and the Commissioners; 
or the substitution may have been Scot's own device to give himself, in London, 
a certificate of position and character, and perhaps add weight to his statements 
in support of the title of the Narragansett proprietors and of his own claims to 
lands for which he had procured deeds from Indians on Long Island." — TnimhiiU. 
Mr. Trumbull, in his Catalogue of Books and Tracts, says: "The advice of 
the commissioners 'to turn it into the Narragansett or Poquot language' was 
not followed. The Catechism remains in the dialect of 'the southwest parts' — 
i.e., the Quiripi (or Quinuipiac) spoken from New Haven westward, near Long 
Island Sound, aud presents the only known specimen of that dialect." 
The following is a copy of Scot's title-page taken from fac-simile in Mr. Trum- 
bull's reprint: 
2929 Some Helps for the | Indians; | Shewing them how to | 
Imijrove their Natural Reason, j to know the true God, and the | 
