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land cold as to expel the Indian and fill their places with the Esqui- 

 maux. 



He had seen native Esquimaux still living in the Straits of Belle Isle, 

 about six hundred miles north of the parallel of Boston. The mound- 

 builders, or " prehistoric men " of America, belong to a race much 

 taller and stouter than the Esquimaux, and, it would seem, better de- 

 veloped physically and mentally than the present Indian races. Their 

 mounds also seem older than the shell-heaps of our coast. 



A special vote of thanks was passed to the several donors of speci- 

 mens. 



Le Eoy F. Griffin, of Beverly ; Hubbard Breed, of Salem ; Edward 

 H. Fletcher, of Salem, were elected Resident Members. 



Monday, December 16, 1867. Regular Meeting. 

 Vice President Goodell in the chair. 



Letters were announced from, — Passaic County Historical Society, 

 Paterson, N. J. (Nov. 15) ; B. F. Owen, Astoria, 111. ; Henry B. Daw- 

 son, Morrisania, N. Y. (Nov. 26) ; James W. Harris, Cambridge (Dec. 

 4); Smithsonian Institution; Nantucket Athenaeum (Dec. 6); Dr. B. 

 Pickman, Boston ; J. H. Vibbert, Rockport (Dec. 9) ; Frank A. Lang- 

 maid, Salem ; Le Roy F. Griffin, Beverly (Dec. 12) ; Hubbard Breed, 

 Boston; Charles H. Hart, Philadelphia (Dec. 13); Prof. Asa^Gray, 

 Cambridge (Dec. 14). 



Donations to the Library were announced. 



A. C. Goodell, jr., read the continuation of his paper on New Eng- 

 land Hymnody and Psalmody. 



Having devoted his first evening to a review of the progress of 

 music in New England from the first settlement of the country to the 

 present century, he devoted the second evening, on Monday, Dec. 16, 

 to a considei'ation of psalmody and hymnody during the same period. 



Very early in the progress of the Reformation hymns and spiritual 

 songs had been composed for popular use by such men as John Huss 

 and Martin Luther, among others. In Germany the Psalms'were first 

 metrically translated; but France brought psalm-singing universally 

 into fashion through the version of Marot and Beza, which was sung 

 by King Francis I. and his whole court. 



Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins attempted for England what 

 Marot and Beza had done for France ; and a sketch was given of the 

 history of their version, — with the names of those who assisted in this 

 labor, — of the popularity which it acquired, and of the means by which 

 it became established in use in the English church. 



The leading Puritan versions were then enumerated and discussed, 

 including Aiusworth's, Barton's, and Rouse's ; and the later versions 

 of Woodford and Denham were compared with former versions. 



PROCEEDINGS ESSEX INST., VOL. V. 26 AUGUST, 1868. 



