ERRATA. Page viii. line 24, note-For "face of the world," read race of the world. Page 303, line 18,-For "better," read bitter. Page 560, line 14,-For "1818," read 1821. NOTES. In page 487, certain information is given, on the authority of "An intelligent Chief of the Grand-river Indians." I now quote, from a publication of the same Chief, recently put into my hands, a statement, which must be considered more correct. "Besides the War Chiefs, there is a kind of hereditary Chief among the Five Nations, if it can with propriety be called hereditary, which is selected from certain families, without respect to older or younger brothers, nephew or grand nephew; but entirely depend on the choice of the family. They are only concerned in civil matters, as their name implies. They also attend to the old religious ceremonies, and appear to be a kind of priesthood. Since their connexion with the European settlements, they have the most to do in the land-selling business; but the War Chiefs have generally the ascendancy as to influence." Since page 536, and others before and after, treating of allegiance, were printed, I have read an able and ingenious discussion on the subject of natural allegiance, by John Reeves, Esq., second edition, 1816. I notice this, the more to engage attention to a point, which it is of the utmost consequence should be settled between the legislatures of Britain and America. Since the first page of "Explanation of the Map" was printed, I have conversed with Mr. John Combes, of Fovant, in Wiltshire, who visited Mr. Birkbeck's settlement in Illinois, Sept. 1818. Mr. B. informed Mr. C. that, during the preceding winter, the mercury had sunk in the thermometer to 19° below Zere, and that the Wabash had been frozen so as to admit of waggons passing over, on the ice, for a month together. During that winter, about the end of January, there were in Upper Canada two or three days, the coldest by far which I experienced during my two years' residence in that country, and the mercury fell to 15° below Zero. Here then we may note more particularly what has been observed above, as to the cold of winter increasing towards the interior of America. At Quebec, 30° below Zero (on one occasion, 33°) 15° At a certain line, running north and south through the centre of America, the cold probably reaches its extreme, and thence westward to the Pacific, diminishes. BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND SOCIETY. "Sir J. C. Hippesly, Bart. was called to the Chair (Monday, Dec. 17th), and the business commenced. Among other business of the day, it was notified by Sir J. C. Hippesly, that Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Clarence, and several ladies of distinction, had become subscribers to the New Dairy Class." This extract from the Salisbury Journal, of December, 1821, making it appear that the "ancient society" is now becoming one of real women, I have to apologize for freedoms in page xviii. Let there be no suicide. No: Vive la bagatelle.—The ladies of the dairy will, I hope, have every fair hand withdrawn from the plough, in spite of the gentlemen's premium. |