The work is ingeniously constructed in such a manner, as to present a vocabulary of Indian words, with their significations, while valuable information is given concerning the various topics enumerated in the titles of the chapters. Appended to each chapter are some pious reflections, and a few lines of rude poetry. An extract from the twenty-first chapter, “Of Religion, the Soul, &c.” will furnish a specimen of the work. “Manit Manittowock, God, Gods. “Obs. He that questions whether God made the world, the Indians will teach him. I must acknowledge, I have received, in my converse with them, many confirmations of those two great points, Heb. 11:6. viz: “1. That God is. “2. That he is a rewarder of all them that diligently seek him. “They will generally confess that God made all; but then, in special, although they deny not that Englishman’s God made English men, and the heavens and earth there; yet their Gods made them, and the heaven and the earth where they dwell. “Nummus quauna-muckqun manit. God is angry with me. “Obs. I heard a poor Indian lamenting the loss of a child, at break of day, call up his wife and children, and all about him, to lamentation, and with abundance of tears, cry out, O, God, thou hast taken away my child! thou art angry with me: O, turn thine anger from me, and spare the rest of my children. “If they receive any good in hunting, fishing, harvest, &c. they acknowledge God in it. “Yea, if it be but an ordinary accident, a fall, &c. they will say, God was angry and did it. “Musquantum manit. God is angry. “But herein is their misery: “First. They branch their godhead into many gods. “Secondly. Attribute it to creatures. “First. Many gods: they have given me the names of thirty-seven, which I have, all which, in their solemn worships, they invocate: as, “Kautantowwit. The great southwest god, to whose house all souls go, and from whom came their corn and beans, as they say. Wompanand. The eastern god. Chekesuwand. The western god. Wunnanameanit. The northern god. Sowwanand. The southern god. Wetuomanit. The house god. “Even as the papists have their he and she saint protectors, as St. George, St. Patrick, St. Dennis, Virgin Mary, &c. Squauanit. The woman’s god. Muckquachuckquand. The children’s god. “Secondly. As they have many of these feigned deities, so worship they the creatures in whom they conceive doth rest some deity: Keesuckquand. The sun god. Nanepaushat. The moon god. Paumpagussit. The sea. Yotaanit. The fire god. “Supposing that deities be in these, &c.” _“The general Observation of Religion, &c._