The incidents and observations of this journey have been given to the public under the title "Travels in the Central Portions of the Mississippi Valley" (1 vol.pp.459, 8vo.: New York).
I still felt the effects of my illness on reaching Detroit, where I remained a few days before setting out for New York.

On reaching Oneida County, where I stopped to recruit my strength, I learned that some envious persons, who shielded themselves under the name of "Trio," had attacked my _Narrative Journal_, in one of the papers during my absence.
The attack was not of a character to demand a very grave notice, and was happily exposed by Mr.Carter, in some remarks in the columns of the _Statesman_, which first called my attention to the subject.
"A trio of writers," he observes, in his paper of 17th August, "in the _Daily Advertiser_ of Wednesday, have commenced an attack on the _Narrative Journal_ of Mr.Schoolcraft, lately published in this city.
We should feel excessively mortified for the literary reputation of our country, if it took any _three_ of our writers to produce such a specimen of criticism as the article alluded to; and 'for charity's sweet sake,' we will suppose that by a typographical error the signature is printed _Trio_ instead of _Tyro_.

At any rate, the essay, notwithstanding all its _wes_ and _ours_, bears the marks of being the effort of _one_ smatterer, rather than the joint production of _three_ critics, as the name imports." The Trio (if we admit there are _tria juncta in uno_, in this knot of savans) pretend to be governed by patriotic motives in attacking Mr.
Schoolcraft.

'In what we have said, our object has been to expose error, and to shield _ourselves_ from the imputation which would justly be thrown upon _ourselves_.' The construction of this sentence reminds us of the exordium of Deacon Strong's speech at Stonington--'_the generality of mankind in general_ endeavor to try to take the disadvantage of _the generality of mankind in general_.' But not to indulge in levities on so grave a subject, we are happy in the belief that the reputation of our country does not demand the condemnation of Schoolcraft's _Journal_, as a proof of our taste, nor need such a shield as the trio have interposed, to protect it from the attacks of foreign reviewers:-- 'Non tali auxilio, nec defensoribus istis Tempus eget.' It affords us great pleasure to relieve the anxiety of the Trio on the subject of shielding 'ourselves from the imputation which would be justly thrown upon ourselves,' by stating that one of the most scientific gentlemen in the United States wrote to the publishers of Schoolcraft's _Journal_, not a week since, for a copy of the work to send to Paris, adding to his request, _the work is so valuable that I doubt not it would be honorably noticed_.
"We have not taken the trouble to examine the passages to which the Trio have referred; for, admitting that a trifling error has been detected in an arithmetical calculation--that a few plants (or _vegetables_, as this botanist calls them) have been described as new, which were before known--and that in the haste of composition some verbal errors may have escaped the author, yet these slight defects do not detract essentially from the merit of the work, or prove that it has improperly been denominated a scientific, valuable, and interesting volume.

Our sage critics are not aware how many and whom they include in the denunciation of 'a few men who _pretend_ to all the knowledge, all the wisdom of the country;' if by a _few_ they mean all who have spoken in the most favorable terms of Mr.Schoolcraft's book.
"One word in respect to the 'candor' of the Trio, and we have done.