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instructive particularly to the European world. I can scarcely think that you intend to go to Press in Canada. It is certainly a poor place for such a work as yours will be; and as to the delay in publishing, which you are polite enough to mention, I am sure that very few indeed of our contributions merit the deference you are pleased to express for them. It is not too late & contrary to your plan I would ask it as a favour to suppress my name to any trifles I may have contributed. I regret that a scarcity of paper prevented me from retaining a Copy, for I think upon a revision now I could make them more worthy of your attention. I had some thoughts of sending you an account of a consultation held by a few of the Natives here

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