"Schoolcraft's _Narrative_ is admirable," observes Sir Humphrey Davy, "both for the facts it develops, and for the simplicity and clearness of the details.

He has accomplished great things by such means, and offers a good model for a traveler in a new country.

I lent his book to our veteran philosophical geographer, Major Kennel, who was highly pleased with it.

Copies of it would sell well in England." A friend sends me a prospectus for a paper under the title of "_Washington Republican_," which has just been established at the seat of government, earnestly advocating the election of John C.Calhoun for the presidency in 1824.
_4th_.

A chief of a shrewd and grave countenance, and more than the ordinary cast of thought, visited me this morning, and gave me his hand, with the ordinary salutation of Nosa (my father).