This work is published with the approbation of the Bishop of Quebec, in the dialect of the Montagnais. “Ella est un des debris,” observes the Bishop, in a note transmitting it, “ainsi que cette des Sauteux, de la grande nation du Algonquins, si celebre dans l’histoire du Canada.” The dialect differs but little from the forms of words now used by the nations of this stock in the north-western quarters of the United States. The use of the letter l, for the sound of n, as heard with our tribes, marks the chief peculiarity in sound. SECTION VI.—DELAWARE. BOOKS AND TRANSLATIONS IN THE DELAWARE, OR LENNO-LEANPI LANGUAGE. 65.—The History of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Shawanoe Baptist Mission. J. Meeker. A. D. 1837. 1 vol. 12mo. 221 pages. This is a version from the Delaware, of Rev. David Zeisberger’s compend of the Four Gospels, published in 1806. It is an attempt to express the Indian sounds by a consonantal system of notation peculiar to Mr. Meeker. 66.—Lenapie Wawipoetakse ave Apwatuk. First Lessons in the Delaware. J. Meeker. Baptist Shawanoe Mission. 1 vol. 18mo. 48 pages. A. D. 1834. 67.—Lenapee Spelling Book. Shawnee Mission. J. Meeker, for the Baptist Society. A. D. 1834. 24 pages, 18mo. SECTION VII.—SHAWANOE. 68.—The Gospel of St. Matthew. Shawanoe Baptist Mission, Ind. Ter. J. Meeker, printer. A. D. 1836. 1 vol. 18mo. p. 64, with 16 pages of hymns added, by Johnston Lykins. This translation has been compared with the Greek text, by J. A. Chute, M. D. 69.—Shawnee Speller and Reader. Siwinowe Eawekitake. By Johnston Lykins. Shawanoe Mission. J. Meeker, printer. A. D. 1834. 1 vol. 18mo. 54 pages. This is executed in the Meekerian system of notation. “The consonants are not pronounced _aloud_, but have precisely the same sound as in reading English.”—_Editor._ The word “Siwinowe,” the equivalent for “Shawanoe,” may serve as an example of the two systems. It has not perhaps, occurred to the author, that when the new system has been learned by the pupils, there will be no other books to be read in it, except those which he or others may publish, in accordance with this very artificial and unpronounceable key; and that to the learner, the whole body of English instruction, science and learning must be a dead letter. 70.—Pratt’s edition of the preceding. A. D. 1838. 24 pages. This is a summary or condensed form of Mr. Lykins’ First Spelling Book. Both are printed in the consonantal system. SECTION VIII.—ABANAKIS. 71.—Kagakimzouiasis Weje Wo’ banakiah. Catechism in the Abanaki language. Quebec: Frechette & Co., for the Catholic Church. 1 vol. 44 pages, 12mo. A. D. 1832.