RAND. 1053 
Eand {Rev. Silas Tertius) — continued. 
tion and answer is followed by an English translation, written iu an easy stylo 
of pbonograi)hy, more or less of which appears throughont several of Mr. Riiud's 
mauur.cripts. 
3185 «7 The Decalogue as | read from the Indian | prayer book 
by Peter | [Christmas] at Escisogiinic | June 12. 1852. | . 
Mannscri|)t. 4' pp. 16°. Apparently not completed. This is written in the 
same blank book as the Catechism described above, which it immediately follows, 
and, like the Catechism, it is accompanied by English equivalents in phonography. 
3185 e Sentences in | Mic Mac. | l2l(5uu wegadigun. | STE. 
Manuscript. i)p. 1-63. 16°. No title-page ; heading as above. Paged reverse 
of usual — even numbers on rectos, odd on versos. Alternate pages Micmao and 
English, in some cases the former occupying the rectos, in others the latter. 
The manuscript includes not only sentences, but short stories and portions of 
the Scrijitures, and on pp. 9-10 is a partial conjugation of the verb to see. Ex- 
odus 20, pp. 11-14. — Genesis 1, "translated March, 1647, by the aid of Joseph 
Brooks," pp. 33-42. — John 4, "Being the first whole chapter translated by me 
(us) into Mic Mac," pp. 42-.52.— Geu. 2, pp. 53-!58.— Gen. 3, pp. 58-63, and con- 
tinued on p. 1. 
3185/ = List of Micmac | words resembling | Greelc, Hebrew, 
La- I tin, &c. | STE. 
Manuscript. 34 11. 16°. In a blank book, leather cover. Concerning this 
work the author writes me as follows: This is a collection of about 300 words, 
in which I saw, or fancied I saw when I composed it, a resemblance between 
many Micmac words and those of other l.-iuguages, chiefly the Greek. I am 
under the impression that a comparison conducted on proper etymological prin- 
ciples would swell the list to many hundreds. 
3185 </ Legends of the | Micmac Indians | and | Extracts from 
the I Micmac Prayer Book | with Interlinear Translations | into | 
English by | Silas T. Eand. | * 
Manuscrijjt. 1vol. sm.4°. In possession of the author. Title, 1 1. ; Introduc- 
tion, 2 11. ; Legends, Micmac and English, 96 11. ; Extracts from the hieroglyphic 
prayer book, dictated by a daughter of Dennis Michael, chief of the Indians in 
Cape Breton, September, 1849, and written phonetically by Mr. Rand in Micmac 
and translated into English; 95 nunnnibered 11., Micmac atd English interlinear. 
"This Micmac Prayer Book, by the way, is a curiosity. It is the invention of 
the Roman Priests about two hundred years ago, aided by the natives, who sug- 
gested the mode of writing. It is written not with letters, but with sign-marks, 
one mark standing for a word, after the manner of the Chinese. It was never 
printed until about five and twenty years ago, when it was prepared and printed 
by a Roman priest, a German named Kauder, living at Pomket, Nova Scotia." — 
Band. See Kauder {Rev. Christian), Nos. 20.57-2059. 
Maj. J. W. Powell has received from Mr. Rand a blank book containing about 
70 11., folio, of these hieroglyphs "as tran.scribed with the pen by an ludian, the 
only way in which the work was multiplied for nearly 200 years." 
SlS5h Notes Explanatory | on the Micmac Trans- | laliun ot the 
Psalms. I Eeferring principally | to the cases in which tlie Mic- | 
mac Version dift'ers from | the English. | Written about tlie | year 
1855. I By Silas T. Rand | Uantsport | Nova Scotia | STK. 
M.inuscript; copy. 94 unnumbered 11. 4°. Mr. Rand writes of it as follows: 
"In huntin"- among my papers, I have discovered a manuscript that I cannot 
