(10) The word strangers is wanting in Marston's copy. See stanza commences, "The name of Howe the Yankees dread." &c.

structed not to do so. Now, the covers contain by Jacob Duché, M. A.,' (8°, London, 1779,) advertisements and other matters, reference to now on sale in Philadelphia, is an oval portrait, which is often useful. Magazines published many without lettering, purporting, on the authority of years ago, are, at this day, usually deemed more a MS. note, to be a likeness of the author. The valuable with the covers than without them. These engraving merely bears the words, " Pelham, Pinx't covers may be rumpled and dog-eared: no mat--I. Clarke, Sculp't.

ter, they are still desirable. Your Historical Can any one furnish some more reliable assurMagazine, the first year of which is just finished, ance, than that of the pencil note referred to, that would be scarcely complete if bound without the this is really a portrait of Mr. Duché, and also covers and the leaves of advertisements. They give me the date, and place of its publication? may make the volume somewhat bulky; but this | inconvenience may be borne.

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The covers of pamphlets too, are generally torn OFFICERS OF THE ARMY OF THE EARL OF off by the binder, unless express instructions in ESSEX.-I am collecting materials for publishing writing are given to preserve and bind them. an edition of "The list of the ARMY, raised unIt is often the case that the covers contain the au-der the command of his Excellency, ROBERT, tograph of the author, with name of the presentee," Earl of Essex, and Ewe, Viscount Hereford, -such endorsements ought to be preserved; but "Lord Ferrers of Chartley, Bourchrir, and Lothe binder, or his employee, detaches the covers," vaine, appointed Captaine General of the army, at the beginning of his operations, and consigns "Imployed for the defence of the Protestant Relig them to the stove. Should it not be the rule, in❝ion, the safety of his Majesties Person, and of every binder's establishment, to bind in the covers "the Parliament; the preservation of the Lawes, of periodicals and pamphlets, unless, indeed, "Liberties, and Peace of the Kingdom, and protecwhich is not very likely, the owner should or- "tion of his Majesties Subjects from violence and der their being destroyed? Authors of pamph-" oppression. With the Names of the severall lets, in presenting copies to their friends, almost " Officers belong to the Army. London. Printed always write at the very top of the cover or title." for John Partredge, 1642. Small qto., conIn binding them up, this writing, or the most of taining twenty pages. I wish, if possible, to give it, is generally shaved off by the binder's knife. slight biographical memoranda concerning each Would it not be better to put the writing at least person, although there are many, I fear, of whom one inch from the top, and the same distance from no record whatever is left. It is highly probable the outer edge? that some of the persons whose names are given afterwards settled in America. Any information, concerning such persons, or any others, whose names are on the list, will be very gladly received by me.

Lincolnshire, England.

EDWARD PEACOCK.

Formerly the paper on which books were printed was sufficiently sized to bear writing ink.. Such, however, is not the paper used now. There is therefore no opportunity of making memoranda or corrections, except with the pencil, the lines from which are soon worn off, or become al- Bottesford Manor, near Brigg, most past reading. This is a serious inconvenience, to remedy which, in some degree, the flyleaves, at the beginning and end of every book, should be of paper that would take the ink from the pen without spreading. This need not add to the cost of binding, for expensive paper is not required. Inferior and cheap descriptions would be sufficient. It is my custom, when getting books bound, to have the fly-leaves put in of such paper, and they are found to be very useful, for notes or remarks.

Philadelphia, Dec. 21, 1857.

QUERIES.

RETSILLA.

PORTRAIT OF THE REV. JACOB DUCHE, M. A., CURATE AT ST. PETER'S CHURCH, IN PHILADELPHIA, AND FIRST CHAPLAIN TO THE CONGRESS OF 1774.- Inserted in a copy of the first volume of "Discourses on various Subjects,

MAJOR GEN. GREY. One of the most cruel and blood thirsty of the British officers, during the American Revolution, was Major General_Grey, who conducted the famous "Massacre at Paoli, in Chester County, Penn., on the night of September 20, 1777; and again distinguished himself, in the night of September 27, 1778, by superintending the Massacre of Baylor's Regiment, in which he ordered "no quarter to be given" to unarmed men, who were begging for their lives. On the 11th of January, 1783, it was announced, in London, that "the King has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant General Sir Charles Grey, Knight of the Bath, to be General and Commander-in-Chief of his Majesty's Forces in North America, lying upon the Atlantic Ocean, in the room of Sir Guy Carleton." Was this the same General Grey, so signalized for massacres? Can any

one give us his subsequent history? It would be curious to learn the entire career and end of the no flint general,” as he was called after the Massacre at Paoli.

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"together with the invaluable Political Legacies
of Washington," should the first volume be favor-
ably received by the public. Was another volume
ever published?
B. J. L.

NEW YORK, Dec. 1857.

NAMES DERIVED FROM MONEDO OR MANITO. -The American Indians believed all places and ROBERT CUSHMAN'S DISCOURSE ON SELFthings to be pervaded or animated by spirits. LOVE. What editions of Robert Cushman's This polytheim has left its impress on the names" Discourse on the Sin and Danger of Self-Love," of many of our islands, lakes, rivers, &c.;—thus (delivered at Plymouth, in 1621, and incorrectly from Manito, a spirit, we have the Manitou, and supposed to have been the first sermon preached Manitoowoc rivers, the Manitoba, and Manitouline in New England,) have been published up to the Lakes, and the Manitoulin islands. present time? S

McKenny, in his Tour to the Lakes, informs us that this word was used to designate an altar, a sacred place, &c.; monedowun, or manitowun, a sacred thing.

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SERMON BY DR. Welton, at Philadelphia. It appears by the following extract from a letter of the Rev. Archibald Cummings, to the Bishop of London, dated at Philadelphia, October 19th, 1726,

Norton's Literary Letter, p. 6, in describing the prospect from the Richmond Hill House says, - viz. " -Your Lordship will observe by his the north, a thick wood gave a rural aspect to the (Dr. Welton's) favorite sermon, printed here, in scenery, which was bounded by quite an extensive what a scurrilous manner he falls foul upon all the stream, known as the Minnetta Water, which, after Clergy of the present Establishment," &c. Prot. a sinuous course, emptied itself into the Hudson Epis. Hist. Collections, I, 97.- that a sermon by about at what is now known as the foot of Ham- the Right Reverend Robert Welton, D. D., a mersley street. This word Minnetta, is proba- famous non-juror, and the second protestant bishop bly the same as Menates, the Indian name for the who ever officiated in America, was printed in peninsula of New York. Manitta is a township Philadelphia about the year 1726. of Fulton county, Illinois. Are Menates, Minnetta and Manitta, derived from manito? MIANTUNNOMOH.

PROVIDENCE, R. I., Dec. 29, 1857.

THE INDIAN "OC."— What was the precise distinction which the Indians of the Algonquin race, intended to indicate by the addition of oc, or auk, usually rendered place? For instance, Dorchester proper, in Massachusetts, was called by them, Matapan, while the contiguous peninsula of South Boston, was designated, Matapanock. Both were places; what then was the difference intended?

S. S.

Can any one give me its title, date, imprint, &c.?
JANUARY, 1858.

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DR. ASHTON'S PIECE AGAINST THE ANABAPTISTS, 1706.- The Rev. John Brooke, a missionary of the "Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts" at Elizabethtown, New Jersey, from 1705 to 1707,- in a letter to the secretary of the society dated Oct. 11, 1706, mentions in the list of his expenditures among the people of his charge, the following, viz:

"£3 towards printing Dr. Ashton's piece against the Anabaptists, and for catechisms to give away," (vide Clark's Hist. of St. John's Church, p. 21.) WASHINGTON MEMORIALS. Your corresAre there any copies of this "piece," which, it pondent, "C. A. P.," mentions an engraved would seem, must have been printed either in portrait of Washington, by E. Savage, bearing Boston, New York or Philadelphia, still extant? the date of 1793. I have a volume that was If any are now in existence, I should like to printed in Newport, Rhode Island, by Oliver ascertain the date and imprint,—in fact, a copy Farnsworth, in the year 1800, entitled, "ME- of the title in full would be desirable. S MORY OF WASHINGTON. It comprises a sketch of his life, by Rev. Jedediah Morse; the national testimonies of respect that had just been rendered to Washington; and a collection of eulogies and orations pronounced after his death. It has a rude engraving of Washington's portrait from Savage's picture, engraved by Hamlin, of Providence. I would like to learn more of Hamlin, as an engraver.

The compiler promised another volume, that should contain several more eulogies and orations,

REPLIES.

STITH'S VIRGINIA (Vol. I. pp. 27 and 59.) — In the H. M. for January 1857 appeared a notice of the above work, in which the writer remarks that he has not been able to determine whether the work was reprinted in London or not. The following number contained a communication from J. R. B. assuring the readers of the Magazine

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that there was a London edition, or, at least, contributed many most effective articles to the that there were copies purporting to be printed in Boston Gazette, and the Independent Ledger.". London. The editor then suggests that, lation of the two editions would determine whether the whole work was reprinted in London, or only the title page."

I have recently been enabled to settle this biographical question in a perfectly satisfactory manner. I have compared a copy with a London title-page and one with the Williamsburg imprint together, and find them identical in every particular except the title-pages- there being two title-pages, one to the work itself and another to the appendix.

ARGUS.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 23d, 1857.

TELEGRAM. (Vol. I. p. 341.) The London "Notes and Queries" for Nov. 21, 1857, contains the following note on this subject, bearing the signature of Hyde Clarke :

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"The oldest date given to this word is yet two years ago, and its earliest habitat the United States. It may be carried farther, for it was used in Liverpool four years ago, and nearly as long ago in London."

It will be perceived that the writer dates the American claim to the coining of this word three years too late. BETA.

CANNIBALS (Vol. I. p. 185.)-Roger Williams in his " Key" derives" Mauguauog, (Mohawk) from moho to eat; the Cannibals, or Men-eaters, into the west." up Again, in the same work he HUBBARD'S INDIAN WARS.— (Vol. I. pp. says "The Mauguauogs make a delicious monstrous 252 [348.) I have read with some interest in dish of the head and brains of their enemies." your August number, the account of Hubbard's See Mass. Hist. Col. Vol. III. p. 209-214. Other works and their various editions; but I think that evidence of the cannibalism of the Iroquois is pre- some little information on the subject may yet be sented in "Bruyas's Racines Agnières," in the H. desirable. M., Vol. I. p. 292, 293. Of the few words there introduced as specimens, three imply cannibalism in the people by whom they were employed. Thus from Gagarien, to eat," are derived "Gannatagarien, to eat a village; ""Atatkarien, to eat each other;" 66 Gagarihaton, to eat many (e. g.)

slaves."

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From the above instances and that cited by Hendrick, we learn 1st that the Iroquois had the reputation among their neighbors of being maneaters. 2d, that the numerous words in their language expressive of this revolting custom, prove that it was so general as to be a common topic of conversation among them, and 3dly, that human bodies were stored with other provisions in their caches. Altogether furnishing a chain of evidence sufficiently strong to convict the Iroqouis of MIANTUNNOMOH.

habitual cannibalism.

PROV. R. I. Nov. 30, 1857.

My own copy of the Indian Wars, although remarkably clean and in fine condition, is wanting in the recommendation by Bradstreet, and in the map. The pagination stops at page 132.

A Table showing the towns and places which are inhabited by the English in New England occupies six pages and ten lines. A postscript follows, paged from one to eight. Then begins a narrative of the troubles with the Indians in New England, from Pascataqua to Pemmaquid, paged from one to eighty-eight. The errata are at the bottom of the last - To this succeeds a much more valuapage.

ble tract.

The Happiness of a People in the Wisdome of their Rulers directing, and in the obedience of their Brethren attending unto what Israel ought to do: Recommended in a Sermon Before the Honourable Governour and Council, and the Respected Deputies of the Mattachusets Colony in New England. Preached at Boston, May 3, 1676, (being the day of election there,) by William Hubbard, Minister of Ipswich.

seven lines, with a list of errata on the blank page, and then the 'Sermon paged from one to sixtythree. It's in fours. I believe this to be the first specimen of Boston printing.

AUTHOR OF THE CRISIS. (Vol. I. p. 280.)-Boston, Printed by John Foster, 1676. Dr. Sprague, in the "Annals of the American (I have omitted three texts of Scripture and a Pulpit," Vol. 1st p. 442, in a sketch of Dr. Samuel quotation from Gregory Naz.) It contains a deCooper of the church in Brattle Square, Boston, dication to John Leveret, in four pages and says"As early as 1754, he [Dr. Cooper] wrote an able and spirited pamphlet, entitled "The Crisis," against the project of an excise, which was favored by many of his friends, the whigs, and which, after having received the sanction of the Representatives, had to encounter, for a time, an unexpected opposition from the Governor. From the time of the Stamp Act to the Revolutionary war, and indeed during the war, he

A brief history of war with the Indians, by Increase Mather, was printed in the same year; but, since that history is carried down to August 12, 1676, it could not have been printed before the end of the year; whilst this sermon was proba

bly issued soon after its delivery, that is in May
or June.

The printing is tolerably good, but nothing
equal to what was produced by the Cambridge
Press. The paper is thin but of a fair quality.
A RICE PLANTER.

HAGLEY, S. C., Jan. 1, 1858.

Retrospections, Literary and Antiquarian.

A History of the Indian Wars with the First Settlers, of the United States, particularly in New England. Written in Vermont. Montpelier, Vt., 1812, 18mo. pp. 319.

My object in introducing this History of Indian Wars is partly to let the readers of the Magazine know that there is such a book, and partly to vindicate the author from some unjust criticisms which were made upon his work at the time of its publication.

We have not space further to enlarge upon this literary curiosity, and will only add that it is loosely written, and its style that of one unaccustomed to composition. We learned many years ago, also, that the name of the author was the Rev. Daniel Clark Sanders, D. D., at one period the President of the University of Vermont. He was a native of Sturbridge, Mass., where he was born in 1768, a graduate of H. C. 1788, and died in | Medfield in 1850, at the age of 82. G.

Reviews and Book Notices.

Third Annual Report and Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, for the year 1856. Volume III. Madison: Calkins & Webb. 1857, 8° pp. 547.

The

Our readers must have learned from our pages, if they were not before aware of the fact, that the State Historical Society of Wisconsin is one of the most active historical societies in the Union. As it was published anonymously, the name of materials that the members of this association, the author was for some time a secret, except in and especially the energetic and pains-taking corhis immediate vicinity. The copy-right was taken responding secretary, Mr. Draper,—are collecting, out in the name of the printers (Wright and Sib- throw floods of light not on the history of their ley) who were also the publishers. The work has own state merely, but also, on that of the whole no preface. It is divided into chapters, but has north west. The present volume is a decided neither table of contents nor index; and is improvement—in quality as well as quantity. printed with strict economy, so far as wasting paper for a margin goes. It should, however, be remembered, that it was printed in the first year of the lamented war with England, and in the "New State," a name by which Vermont was then generally known. The paper and typography are vastly superior to those used for an edition of Hubbard's Indian Wars, published in the same State, two years later; which edition of Hubbard has been noticed in the first volume of the Magazine, p. 253.

upon its predecessors. From one of its papers,
namely, Grignon's Recollections, we have already
made copious extracts. We find here, many
other papers of value; such as the Jesuit Mission-
aries of the North West; -the Cass Manuscript;-
Judge Wetherell's Reminiscences; -the Chip-
pewas of Lake Superior; -the Antiquities of
Wisconsin, &c., &c. We hope the society will
persevere in its efforts to obtain the personal re-
collections of the old settlers yet surviving. Many
important facts are treasured up in their memories
the knowledge, of which will die with them, unless
some such means as are employed by this society
are used to obtain them.

Collections of the Maine Historical Society Vol. V.,
Portland; Published for the Society, 1857.

When this little volume of "Indian Wars," appeared, it was assailed with acrimony by a writer in a periodical, entitled "The Liberal and Philosophical Repository," No. 5, for December and January, 1813-14. The writer of the article was evidently an enemy to the author of the History, and must have written it to be The Maine Historical Society have here given revenged for some real or fancied grievance; for us a very interesting volume. We have first the it does not appear that he was any better in- Inaugural Address of President Willis, containing formed about Indian Wars, than the author whom biographical notices of his predecessor in office;he so severely criticised. However, we were in- then the Pemaquid Papers discovered by Dr. formed many years ago, on inquiring for this Franklin B. Hough, in the State Department at History, that the criticisms upon it had so much Albany, N. Y., and edited in a very acceptable effect upon the author, that he, or his publishers manner by that gentleman;-then Mr. Thornton's suppressed the work. This accounts for its ex- article on Ancient Pemaquid, before noticed, (Vol. treme rarity; but a single copy having ever been I. p. 320); then Mr. McKeen's paper giving his seen by a collector of such works, in the whole reasons for believing that Weymouth, in his Voycourse of a quarter of a century. ages to the Coast of Maine, in 1609, entered and