They often take the form of allegory, and in this shape appear designed to teach some truth or illustrate some maxim.

The fact, indeed, of such a fund of fictitious legendary matter is quite a discovery, and speaks more for the intellect of the race than any trait I have heard.

Who would have imagined that these wandering foresters should have possessed such a resource?
What have all the voyagers and remarkers from the days of Cabot and Raleigh been about, not to have discovered this curious trait, which lifts up indeed a curtain, as it were, upon the Indian mind, and exhibits it in an entirely new character?
_August 1st_.

Every day increases the interest which the question of the investigation of the Indian languages and customs assumes in my mind.

My facilities for pursuing these inquiries and for the general transaction of the official business has been increased this day by my removing into a new and more convenient office, situated some ninety or a hundred yards west of my former position, but on a line with it, and fronting, like the former room, on an ancient green on the river's banks.