Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1835, by KEY & BIDDLE, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: ADVERTISEMENT. THE two commencing papers of this volume, and that at page 68, under the caption of 'Curious Particulars, &c.,' being a sketch of the general character of our North American aborigines, may serve, in some measure, as an introduction to the pages that follow. Time is advancing, by rapid strides, towards the extinction of the Indian race in North America. It may be well to preserve such authenticated facts as, at this day, lie within our reach, that posterity may not be altogether ignorant of characteristics attached to a various people, that once reigned lords over this wide extended country. It is to be regretted, that earlier steps had not been taken for this pose, and thus have supplied what must now forever remain a chasm in the history of man pur kind. But, let us gather up the fragments which remain to us, and save a little of what our predecessors have treated with too much neglect. The writer has to regret the loss of numerous manuscripts, treating of the American Indians, which had for many, very many, years, been accumulating on his hands; and which, in connexion with the following sheets, could have thrown much additional light upon the subject before us. Magnanimity and Disinterested Generosity, &c. The Conjuror out-conjured, The Aged Muskoghee, or Creek Chief, Reminiscence of Times Gone By, Indian Eloquence on Various Occasions, Substance of a Most Singular Talk, The Earthquakes in 1812-Alarm of the Savages, Brandt, on Imprisonment for Debt, |