[Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft]@TWC D-Link bookPersonal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
CHAPTER VIII
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New-Yearing--A prospect opened--Poem of Ontwa--Indian biography--Fossil tree--Letters from various persons--Notice of Ontwa--Professor Silliman--Gov.
Clinton--Hon.
J.Meigs--Colonel Benton--Mr.
Dickenson--Professor Hall--Views of Ex-presidents Madison, Jefferson, and Adams on geology--Geological notices--Plan of a gazetteer--Opinions of my _Narrative Journal_ by scientific gentlemen--The impostor John Dun Hunter--Trip up the Potomac--Mosaical chronology--Visit to Mount Vernon.
1822._Jan.
1st_ .-- I spent this day a New-Yearing.
Albany is a dear place for the first of January; not only the _houses_ of every one, but the _hearts_ of every one seem open on this day.
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