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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 



Atwater (C.) — Contiuued. 



Linguistics as indicated under previous title. 

 Copies seen: Boston Public, Congress. 



The I Indians of the northwest, | their 



I maners [sic], customs, &c. &c. j or | 

 remarks | made on a tour to Prairie du 

 Chien and | thence to Washington City 

 in 1829, I by Caleb Atwater, | commis- 

 sioner employed by the United States, 

 to ne- I gotiate with the Indians of the 

 Upper I Mississippi, for the purchase 

 of the ( mineral country, &c, | 



Columbus: | 1850. 



Title verso copyri lit (1831) 1 1. contents pp. 

 iii-iv, preface (dated November, 1831) pp. v-vii, 

 text pp. 1-296, 12°. 



Linguistics, as in editions of 1831, pp, 75-84. 



Copies seen: Congress, Massachusetts His- 

 torical Society. 



The I writings | of [ Caleb Atwater. | 



Columbus. I Published by the author. 

 I Printed by Scott and Wright. | 1833. 



Title verso copyright 1 1. dedication verso 

 blank 1 1. preface pp. 5-7, contents p. 8, 1 1. text 

 pp. 9-408, 8°. 



This work is made up of two articles : "A de- 

 scription of the antiquities discovered in the 

 western coantry, originally communicated to 

 the American Antiquarian Society, by Caleb 

 Atwater " (pp. 9-165) ; and " Remarks made on a 

 tour to Prairie du Chien, thence to Washing- 

 ton City, in 1829" (pp. 167-408). The latter con- 

 tains remarks upon and a few examples of the 

 Ojibeway, Winnebagog, Sioux, and Osage. 



Copies seen : British Museum, Congress, Har- 

 vard. 



Aubery (Pere Joseph). Dictionnaire 

 Frangois-Abnaquis, par le Pere Joseph 

 Anbury, J^suite. (*) 



Manuscript, 540 unnumbered pp. 4°; the old 

 and worn out binding recently replaced by a new 

 one. Preserved in the archives of the Roman 

 Catholic mission at Pierreville, Canada, and de- 

 scribed by Judge Charles Gill in his Notes sur 

 do vieux m^nuscrits abenakis {q.v.), from which 

 the following account is taken : 



" On the first page below the title is written 

 'ce qui y est 6crite en une autre ecriture que 

 celle de I'auteur n'est point abnaquis, e'est de 

 I'algonquin que le E,. P. de la Chasse y a ecrit 

 de sa main, I'auteur de ce dictionnaire n'y 

 aucune part.' There are in fact a great number 

 of Algonquin words added, either interlined or 

 following the Aljnaquis word as space per- 

 mitted. The second page is filled with ' Quel- 

 ques notes' by the author, in which he refers to 

 a 'petit dictionnaire des racines,' and a 'Rudi- 

 ment Abnaquis' Thenfollows the dictionary, 

 commencing with the word abandonner and 

 terminating with the word zone on page 540. On 

 the last half of this page is found a statement in 

 Ab6naki8 signed : Josp"""" A. e Soc. Jesu. Arsi- 



Aubery(J.) — Continued. 



kanteg8k dari 18 augusti, anni 1715. editio 2da 

 haec est. 



"This dictionary is a work which has 

 required immense labor and a benedictine 

 patience, and as much can be said of the Ab- 

 naquis-French dictionary mentioned below, 

 thou'ih it does nb'c appear to be so complete. 



"The sign of a cross, still in use among the 

 Jesuits, it seems, is found at the top of each 

 page of the dictionary. As the Latin words 

 below the signature indicate, this copy is a sec- 

 ond edition ; nothing is known of the first. Nor 

 is there found among the manuscripts of the 

 St. Francis mission the ' Rudiment Abnaquis ' of 

 which Father Aub6ry speaks in his ' Quelques 

 notes.' But there are two copies of a ' diction- 

 naire des racines ' [see Nuddnans (J. B.)], which 

 has probably had for a basis the little dictionary 

 of roots made by Father Aubery which has not 

 reached us, unless he means thereby the Ab6- 

 nakis-French dictionary next mentioned. The 

 Abbe Joseph Maurault, the author of the his- 

 tory of the Abenakis, who was the last mission- 

 ary at St. Francis acquainted with the lan- 

 guage of these Indians, undertook, I have often 

 been told, to make a grammar of that language, 

 as well as an Ab6uaquis-French dictionary, but I 

 do not think he ever finished them ; at least he 

 had nothing printed." 



[Dictionnaire Abnaquis-Fran5oi8.](*) 



Manuscript, 927 pp. double columns (many 

 pages blank), 4°, preserved at the Roman Cath- 

 olic mission of Pierreville, Canada, and de- 

 scribed by Judge Gill in his Notes sur de vieux 

 manuscrits abenakis (q.v.), as follows: 



' ' No title or preliminary matter and ends with- 

 out signature or date, but in the handwriting 

 of Father Aubery. The manner in which the 

 blank spaces are disposed indicates that the 

 author left them for the purpose of inserting 

 pther words as opportunity should present or 

 his studies suggest. It begins with ' a figu- 

 rative de la 3e pers.' and ends with 'z8sk8i8i, 

 6tendu surledos, z8sk8-esin, il est ain8icouch6.' 

 There are added words in an ancient hand- 

 writing, and also some notes in the hand of the 

 Abb6 Maurault, the latter indicating the ety- 

 mology of the names of places. The work is in 

 character like the preceding, and has required 

 much labor by the author. It is paged, but the 

 little cross mentioned in the French- Abnaquis 

 dictionary is not found in it. Sometimes the 

 signification of the Indian word is indicated in 

 Latin without giving the French word." 



Maurault's Histoire des Abenakis, p. vili, 

 speaks, of "un vocabulaire ab6nakis, fait vers 

 1712, par le P.Joseph Aub6ry," which is, per- 

 haps, one of the above. 



[ ] Chant Liturgique [en langue ab^- 



nakise]. (*) 



Manuscript, 577 pp. (lacking pp. 2-9, 30-42), 

 4^, preserved at the Roman Catholic mission at 

 Pierreville, Canada, and described by Judge 

 Gill in his Notes sur de vieux manuscrits ab6- 



