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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES. 



Guichart de Kersident (V. F.)— Cont'd. 



[ ] Grammaire algonquine. 



Manuscript, 50 11. 4°, in the archives of the 

 Catholic church at Lac des deux Montagues 

 (Oka), Canada. Interspersed with the text are 

 a numher of blank leaves upon which are 

 written, in different handwritings and appar- 

 ently at different dates, notes relating to the 

 coming and going of various missionaries 

 attached to this station; among them is one 

 which reads : "Guichart au lac 1754-mort 1793." 



Guichart de Kersident (V. F.)— Cont'd. 



"Vinceut Fleuri Guichart de Kersident cam© 

 from France in 1754,learned the two languages, 

 and served, sometimes conjointly, sometimes 

 successively, the Iroquois and the Algonkina 

 of the Lac des Deux Montagues. He has left 

 some instructions both in Algonkin and Iro- 

 quois. He knew the plain-chant well, and has 

 left us several manuscripts of songs with notes. 

 His portrait is preserved at the Lake of the 

 Two Mountains. He died in 1793. "—Cwog. 



