Among the Iroquois the husband elect went to the wife’s cabin and sat down on the mat opposite the fire. If she accepted him she presented him a bowl of hominy and sat down beside him, turning modestly away. He then ate some and soon after retired.—_Lafitau, Moeurs des Sauvages_, I, p. 566. _Note_ 59, _page_ 81. Sagard, in his _Histoire du Canada_, p. 185, makes a similar remark as to the Hurons, a kindred tribe, men and women acting as here stated, and he says that in this they resembled the ancient Egyptians. Compare _Hennepin, Moeurs des Sauvages_, p. 54; _Description d’un Pays plus grand que l’Europe, Voyages au Nord_, V, p. 341. {125} _Note_ 60, _page_ 96. This characteristic of the active trading propensities of the early settlers will apply to the present race of Americans in a fourfold degree. _Note_ 61, _page_ 96. One who brought goods to Maryland without following such advice as Alsop gives, describes in Hudibrastic verse his doleful story in the _Sot Weed Factor_, recently reprinted. _Note_ 62, _page_ 96. For an account of this gentleman, see ante, p. 13. _Note_ 63, _page_ 97. The rebellion in Maryland, twice alluded to by our author in his letters, was a very trifling matter. On the restoration of Charles II, Lord Baltimore sent over his brother Philip Calvert as governor, with authority to proceed against Governor Fendall, who, false alike to all parties, was now scheming to overthrow the proprietary government. The new governor was instructed on no account to permit Fendall to escape with his life; but Philip Calvert was more clement than Lord Baltimore, and though Fendall made a fruitless effort to excite the people to opposition, he was, on his voluntary submission, punished by a merely short imprisonment. This clemency he repaid by a subsequent attempt to excite a rebellion.—_McMahon’s History of Maryland_, pp. 213–14, citing Council Proceedings from 1656 to 1668, liber H. H., 74 to 82. THE END. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Original spelling and grammar have been generally retained, with some exceptions noted below. Original small caps (and also one phrase in bold type) are now uppercase. Italics look _like this_. Enlarged curly brackets, used to combine information from two or more lines of text have been discarded. The transcriber produced the cover image and hereby assigns it to the public domain. The primary source of page images was archive.org—search for “characterofprovi00alsorich”. Secondary sources, also at archive.org, were “characterofprovince00also” and “gowansbibliothec00gowaiala”