4 The American Geologist. Jau. isoo 
creditable as well tohimself as to the authority he fearlessly 
represented. 
His six quarto volumes, "Archives of Aboriginal Knowl- 
edge," comprising antiquities, languages, ethnology and gen- 
eral history of the Indian tribes of North America, attracted 
much attention at the time as a valuable addition to Indian 
archfeology and history, and Mr. Schoolcraft received numer- 
ous tokens of appreciation not only in this countr}', but from 
many scientific and historical associations in foreign lands. 
At the time of its publication a scholar writing to the "Phila- 
delphia Bulletin" said : " 'The ethnological researches re- 
specting the red men of America by Henry R. Schoolcraft,' is 
a monument of genius, reflecting honor on the country, and 
placing its author among the very highest scholars of the age 
and of the world. In it we find accumulated with a research 
which defies appreciation, an industry which is incredible, and 
a quick piercing genius which reads the value of every fact at 
a glance, a mass of material which will in future ages reveal 
to the scholar facts which we are as yet far from being able to 
develop. We know that the work and the author have been 
praised ere now, but we have never yet heard the one or the 
other estimated as they deserve ; for certain we are that Ger- 
many has no better reason to boast of Hammer, Purgstall, 
Kaiser or Grimm ; France of Michelet or Lajard ; or England 
of any of her long array of antiquarians from Leland to Pals- 
grave, than we have to boast of Schoolcraft, as shown in the 
great work in question." 
In 1823, while at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, he became 
acquainted with John Johnston,|Esq., and his attractive fam- 
ily. Mr. Johnston was an]Irish gentleman — in fact, an aristo- 
crat — of superior education and courtly manners, who claimed 
among his kinsmen the bishop of Dromore and Mr. Saurin, 
attorney general of Ireland. Mr. Johnston was attracted by 
the beautiful daughter of the ^renowned [Indian chief of the 
Chippewa nation, Waubojeeg, and married her. Their eldest 
daughter Jane, was sent in herj< early childhood to Dublin to 
be educated under the supervision of Mr. Johnston's kindred 
there. Mr. Johnston's means enabled him to dispense a hos- 
pitality almost princely, and Mr.|Schoolcraft was among those 
who shared in it; and when Miss Jane Johnston returned 
home Mr. Schoolcraft was|^ immediately captivated, not only 
