ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES. 



569 



Meurain {Bev. —). [Illinois (.?) -French 

 dictionary.] (*) 



Manuscript. 



In Morse (J.), Report to the Secretaryi of War, 

 p. 144, will be found the following note : 



The Rev. Father Meurain died at Prairie du 

 Eocher, forty-five miles below St. Louis, fifteen 

 above Kaskaskias, on the Mississippi, in the 

 year 1778. He was the last of the Jesuits in 

 this couutry. He was ordered home ; bat at 

 the request of the Indians he returned and 

 died with them. He was a very learned man, 

 and has left a valuable library aud a manuscript 

 dictionary of the Indian and French languages, 

 in twenty-four volumes. He was missionary 

 to the Illinois Indians and was respected and 

 beloved by them as a very pious and faithful 

 missionary. 



Morgan (Bev. George Brinley). See 

 Gilfillan (J. A.), in the Addenda. 



Mr. Morgan is an Ojibway clergyman of 

 White Earth, Minn., whose Indian name is 

 "Ka-ka-kun," meaning that- which-is -burned- 

 to-a-crisp. 



Nason (Bev. Elias). Indebtedness of the 

 English to the Indian languages of 

 America. (Communicated by Rct. 

 Elias Nason.) 



In New England Hist. & G-en. Register, vol. 

 20, pp. 309-312, Boston, 1866, 8°. (Lenox.) 



Contains a list of words derived from the 

 Algonquian and other Indian languages, with 

 etymologies. 



Noaquett. See Simer-well (R.) and 

 Noaquett. 



O'Meara (Bev. Frederick A. ). See Spell- 

 ing and reading book. 



In addition to the brief account given on pp. 

 381-382 of this bibliography, the following par- 

 ticulars concerning Dr. O'Meara have been 

 ascertained. He was appointed by the Society 

 for the Propagation of the Gospel, in 1839, as a 

 missionary to the Indians at Sault St. Marie, 

 and was subsequently transferred by the Bishop 

 of Toronto to the Government Indian mission 

 at Manatoulin Island. In his Second Report of 

 a Mission to the Ottahwahs and Ojibwas, on 

 Lake Huron (second edition, London, 1847), ho 

 gives some account of his translations into the 

 Indian language. 



Under date of January 12, 1845, he writes : 

 " Having lately seen more plainly than ever the 

 evil of a book such as the Methodist Hymns 

 being in the hands of my people, after the more 

 public and fatiguiog labours of the day were 

 concluded, I tried what I could do at trans- 

 lating some of the Hymns and Psalms from our 

 own collection. I succeeded in this, my first 

 essay in that kind of work, so as to encourage 

 me to proceed in the translation of a small col- 

 lection to be appended to the Prayer Book." 



O'Meara (F. A.) — Continued. 



During the next four months he revised his 

 translation of the Prayer Book, and translated 

 more Psalms and Hymns. In the latter part of 

 May he went to Toronto, in order to make 

 arrangements for the printing of these works. 

 While at Detroit, he waited on the Bishop, for 

 the purpose of ascertaining what he would do 

 towards the Indian Prayer Book. From him 

 he first learned of the existence of Johnston's 

 translation of The morning and evening prayer 

 (Detroit, 1844), concerning which see his 

 remarks on pages 566-567 of this Addenda. 



" September 16, [1845].— Sent the first portion 

 of the manuscript of the Indian Prayer-book 

 to the Rev. Mr. Grasett, to be transmitted by 

 him to Dr. Bethune ; it contains the Morning 

 and Evening Services and Litany. I have taken 

 much care with the writing, that it may be as 

 legible as possible." 



"October 13. — Busily engaged during all the 

 time that could be spared from my usual work, 

 preparing the manuscript of the Ojibway 

 Psalms and Hymns, as the next opportuuity 

 will probably be the last this season." 



The above-mentioned Prayer Book, Psalms, 

 and Hymns were printed at Toronto in one 

 volume, in 1846, as described on page 379 of this 

 bibliography. Dr. O'Meara ministered to the 

 Indians on Great Manitoulin Island for twenty- 

 two years. According to Rev. J. A. Gilfillan, 

 he died at Port Hope in 1888. 



Orcutt (Samuel). The | Indians | of the 

 I Housatonic and Naugatuck Valleys. | 

 By I Samuel Orcutt, | Author of the 

 Histories of the Towns of Wolcott, 

 Torrington, Derby, and | New Milford, 

 Conn. I 



Hartford, Conn. : | press of the Case, 

 Lockwood & Brainard company. | 1882. 



Frontispiece 1 1. title verso blank 1 1. preface 

 pp. iii-iv, contents pp. 5-6, illustrations verso 

 additional illustrations 1 1. text pp. 1-201, ap- 

 pendix pp. 202-222, 1 blank 1. index pp. 209-220, 

 sixteen other plates, 8°. 



Etymology of local names (Naugatuck, 

 Housatonic, etc.). pp. 62-63, 101-102, 107, 108-109, 

 110, 114, 119, 199, 208.— A few Naugatuck 

 phrases with translation, p. 70. — Also lists of 

 names of Indian chiefs, from deeds, of the 

 Quinnipiacs, pp. 8,9; of the Wepawaugs (Po- 

 tatucks and Paugasucks), pp. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. 

 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 42; of the Naugatuck Valley 

 (Tunxis, Paugasucks, aud Potatucks), pp. 25- 

 35 ; and of New Milford (Potatucks), pp. 94, 95, 

 96, 97, 98, 99, 103, 106, 117, 118, 119. 



Copies been: Eames. 



Otta-wa-Chippewa. [Proclamation by 

 Ottawa and Chippewa chiefs.] 



Manuscript, 2 11. 4°, in possession of the 

 compiler of this bibliography. 



This manuscript, the body of which is in 

 English, is in the form of a letter, "To all 



