LE BOULAKGER— LE JEUNE. 1005 
[Le Boulanger {Eec. Joseph Ignatius)]— continaed. 
the authorship that approaches to probability is furnished by Father Gabriel 
Marest, iu his letter dated Kaskaskia, 9th November, 1712, and published in the 
Lettres fidifiantes. Speaking of Father Gravier, the founder of the mission to 
the Illinois, he says : ' He first investigated the principles of their language, and 
reduced them to grammatical rules, so that ive havo since only been obliged to 
bring to perfection vrhat he began with so great success.' {Kip'e Tramlation. p. 
206.) From this it may be inferred that the volume » » * is the compilation 
of many fathers, a conclusion to which we more readily come, since it accords 
with that already expressed by Mr. Shea, in his History of the Catholic Missions 
among the Indian Tribes of the United States."— ffisJ. Mag., I'o?. 3,;y). 227-228. 
In the iirospectus of the French Illinois Dictionary (No. 22:J0), which Mr. Shea 
was printing from this manuscript when it disappeared about 186.5, he ascribes 
it to Father Le Boulanger, it being, in his opinion, the work of one who had got 
far beyond the rudimentary stages of the study, and evidently of a single authiT 
who had mastered his subject, a reputation enjoyed only by Le Boul.anger. 
See Gravier (Bev. James), No. 1600, for a description by Dr. J. Hammond 
Trumbull of a manuscript Illinois-French Dictionary, of which ho conjectured 
the above might be the counterpart. Examination proves, however, that this is 
not true. In his judgment, the manuscript above described is not iu the Miami 
dialect; it is in a handwriting different from that of No. 1600, and apparently of 
a later date ; and it is not in the same local dialect. 
2231 a Le Brun (A. Ch. Braiin, letter Icnoicn as). [Sermous in the Mo- 
hawk language.] * 
Manuscript. 120 unnumbered 11. 4°. In the archives of the Sulpician Semi- 
nary at Oka, Canada. Title furnished by Erminnie A. Smith, who says the 
earliest date on the sermous is 1733. They are in a bound book, on the first page 
of which is the following index of the contents: 
Sectio Prima. De B. Joanne Baptista. 
De doctrina Christiana quid sit esse De B. Laurentio. 
Christianum. Explicatio Orationis Dominicalis. 
De Signo Crucis. Salutatio Angelica In feto St. Nicola. 
De Deo et Dei perfectionibiis. Annunciationi. 
Explanatio Symboli Apostolorum. St. Philippi & Jacobi. 
Prima articula in nativitate Domini. Asceusionis. 
Circumcisione. Pentecostes. 
De Ste Trinitate. St. Frangois Xavier. 
Formation du Prone. 
2245 le Jeune (P.Paul). Relation | de ce qvi s'est pass6 | en la | Xov- 
velle France, | eu I'anuee 1034. | Enuoy(5e au | R. Pere Provincial | 
de la Compagnie de lesvs | en la Prouince de France. | Par le P. 
Paul le leune de la mesme Compagnie, | Supeiieur de la residence 
de Kebec. | [Design.] | 
A Piiris, I Chez Sebastien Cramoisy, Imprimeur | ordinaire du 
Roy, rue S. lacques, au Cicognes. | M. DC. XXXV [1035]. | Avec 
Privilege dv Roy. | L. HU. 
2 p. 11., pp. 1-342, 1 1. 8°. Improved title of No. 2245. 
De la langue des Sauvages Moutagnais, chapitre xi, pp. 174-184. — Deux Orai- 
sons en leur langue (with interlinear French translation), pp. 277-278, 279-280. 
This work was reprinted at Paris the same year with several errors iu the 
text and pagination corrected. These differences are pointed out in Coutribu- 
tions to a Catalogue of the Lenox Library, No. II, p. 5. Reprinted also as follows: 
