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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 



McKee (A.)— Continued. 



service to the republic of letters, by giving 

 your Excellency a Vocabulary and Grammar of 

 the Shawanese tongue, together with our 

 Lord's prayer ; all composed at my request, by 

 my friend Alexander McKee, Esq. to whom the 

 best speakers of the nation recur for instruction 

 in all doubtful words and expressious in their 

 own language. 



"Mr. McKee being a good scholar, and 

 writing a very fair hand, adds to the certainty 

 and value of these performances ; and the more 

 so, as I have reason to believe that he neither 

 made nor kept another copy. I find, too, from 

 my former travels and late tour, that the Shaw- 

 anese tongue is the root of many others of the 

 more western tribes. 



' 'A Vocabulary and Grammar of the Delaware 

 language is made by the Rev. Mr, Zeisberger, 

 which, if your Excellency hath not obtained, I 

 will procure and send to you. They are all at 

 present in my son's possession, except our 

 Lord's prayer, as I gave them to him when he 

 entered a cadet in the first United States' regi- 

 ment ; but I will write to him immediately for 

 them, if your Excellency wishes to have them. 

 I do myself the honor to inclose our Lord's 

 prayer, as I brought it here with intention to 

 publish it, to prevent its being lost. When 

 your Excellency has had a copy taken, be 

 pleased to direct the original to be forwarded, 

 inclosed in my letter, to Mr. Carey." 



On its receipt by Mr. Carey this specimen of 

 the Lord's prayer in Shawanese was printed by 

 him in the American Museum, vol. 6 (Philadel- 

 phia, 1789), p. 318. 



McLean (Bev. John). Indian hymns. 

 By the Rev. John McLean, Ph. D. 



In The Methodist Magazine, vol. 32 (no. 3, for 

 Sept., 1890), pp. 266-267, Toronto, 1890, 8°. (Pil- 

 ling.) 



A hymn (eight lines) entitled "Noqkimokit," 

 in the Blackfoot language, with translation 

 into English, p. 267. 



Maggi (P. G.) Nota di P. G. Maggi | dell' 

 Istituto Lomhardo | intorno i saggi 

 inediti di lingue americane ] publicati 

 dal prof. E. Teza | letta nella toruata 

 del 4 febbrajo 1869. 



Colophon : Estratto dai Rendiconti 

 del Reale Istituto Lombardo. j Serie 

 II. Volume II. I Milano, 1869. Tip. 

 Bernardoni. 



No title-page, heading only ; text pp. 1-10, 

 colophon verso blank 1 1. 8°. 



Kemarks on the Algonchino language, in- 

 eluding a few words and phrases, with transla- 

 tions, p. 5. 



Gopiee seen : Eames. 



Maillard {Able Anthony S.) [Prayers, 

 catechism, instructions, etc., in the 

 Micmac language.] (*) 



Maillard (A. S.)— Continued. 



Manuscript, 341 pp. 4=', formerly in the pos- 

 session of Rev. Eugene Vetromile, who men- 

 tions it as follows in a letter to Eev. J. M. 

 Einotti, dated from Eastport, Jan. 19, 1875 : 



"I suppose you know the large Micmac man- 

 uscript book, containing prayers, catechism, 

 Instructions, etc. I have copy by F^. Demilier, 

 but he was not the author. I think that E'. 

 Menard was the author. It is a fine work, ex- 

 cellent, and very correct Micmac language, 341 

 pages quarto." 



This is probably the manuscript fully 

 described under Demillier (L. E.), page 109 of 

 this bibliography. 



Mathevet {Pere Jean Claude). [Com- 

 pendium of bible history in the Algon- 

 quin (Nipissing) language.] (*) 



Manuscript; 11 parts, containing 222 pp. 8°. 

 In the BibliotecaVittorioEmmanueleatRome. 

 The narrative embraces the pentateuch, the 

 historical books, and in the last part a few 

 extracts from the new testament (Luke iv, 

 Matt, i, Luke ii). 



In 1833 it was proposed at Rome to have this 

 work revised and printed. The transcript 

 described above was probably made for this 

 purpose by P6re Durocher, at the request of 

 the Abb6 Thavenet, who hoped to have his 

 help and that of De Bellefeuille in the work of 

 revision. 



Concerning the manuscript, Durocher wrote 

 as follows, January 1, 1834: "J'ai t4ch6 

 d'61aguer toates les expressions 8urann6es et 

 d'y substituer celles qui sont maintenant en 

 usage. J'ai surtout consults pour cela mon 

 Ciceron nipising, Ignace.Chawanabe qui, pour 

 le dire en passant, a le m^rite de la composition 

 du discours algonquin en r6ponse au bref de 

 sa saintet6 Gr6goire xvi, et Eran9ois Odjik, 

 puriste nipising." 



"Corretto a quel modo il manoscritto nel 

 Canada," remarks Professor Teza, "avrebbe 

 voluto il fiero missionario [ Durocher] che nes- 

 sunoci mettesse piii mano in Europa : e spesso 

 ai dubbi con semplicita proposti dal Thavenet 

 rispoude con i motti pungenti, con 1' ironia. Poi 

 si stanca: punisce il critico sagace e interro- 

 gatore col silenzio : tanti studi, tanta pazienza, 

 tante fatiche non danno alcun frutto : 1' opera 

 del Mathavet rimane inedita." The above 

 description is from Teza (E.), Intorno agli studi 

 del Thavenet, pp. 4-C. 



A partial transcript, probably of the same 

 work, is preserved in the Biblioteca Comunale 

 at Bologna, among the manuscripts of Cardinal 

 Mezzofanti, in whose handwriting it is. Ac- 

 cording to Teza (E) {Saggi inediti di lingue 

 americane, pp. 12-13), it consists only of "la 

 storia della creazione, breve scrittura che com- 

 pendia il genesi, ma non va oltre al quinto 

 giorno." It begins : "Wayechkat o ki kijenin- 

 dan kije-manito wakwi kaye akki. Kakkina 

 anotch kekon o kijenindanan negotowasso 

 kijikatinik inikik." 



