of the Indian boundary, began in 1825, at Prairie du Chien, and that his sketches of his tour of last year is just issued from the press.  He adds, “It is rather a ladies’ book.  I prefer the sex and their opinions.  They are worth ten times as much as we, in all that is enlightened, and amiable, and blissful.”  Undoubtedly so!  This is gallant.  I conclude it is a gossiping tour; and, if so, it will please the sex for whom it is mainly intended.  But will not the graver male sex look for more?  Ought not an author to put himself out a little to make his work as high, in all departments, as he can?

Governor C. informs me (April 10th) that he will proceed to Green Bay, to attend the contemplated treaty on the Fox River, and that I am expected to be there with a delegation of the Chippewas from the midlands, on the sources of the Ontonagon, Wisconsin, Chippewa, and Menominie rivers.

Business and science, politics and literature, curiously mingle, as usual, in my correspondence.  Mr. M. Dousman (April 10) writes that a knave has worried him, dogged his heels away from home, and sued him, at unawares.  Mr. Stuart (April 15) writes about the election of members of council.  Dr. Paine, of New York, writes respecting minerals.

May 10th.  An eminent citizen of Detroit thus alludes to my recent bereavement:  “We sympathize with you most sincerely, in the loss you have sustained.  We can do it with the deeper interest, for we have preceded you in this heaviest of all calamities.  Time will soothe you something, but the solace of even time will yet leave too much for the memory and affections to brood over.”

Another correspondent, in expressing his sympathies on the occasion says:  “The lines composed by Mrs. Schoolcraft struck me with such peculiar force, as well in regard to the pathos of style, as the singular felicity of expression, that I have taken the liberty to submit them for perusal to one or two mutual friends.  The G——­ has advised me to publish them.”

14th.  National boundary, as established by the treaty of Ghent.  Major Delafield, the agent, writes:  “Our contemplated expedition, however, is relinquished, by reason of instructions from the British government to their commissioners.  It had been agreed to determine the par. of lat.  N. 49 deg., where it intersects the Lake of the Woods and the Red River.  But the British government, for reasons unknown to us, now decline any further boundary operations than those provided for under the Ghent treaty.

“We have been prevented closing the 7th article of that treaty, on account of some extraordinary claims of the British party.  They claim Sugar, or St. George’s Island, and inland, by the St. Louis, or Fond du Lac.  Both claims are unsupported by either reason, evidence, or anything but their desire to gain something.  We, of course, claim Sugar Island, and will not relinquish it under any circumstances.  We also claim inland by the Kamanistiquia, and have sustained this claim by much evidence.  The Pigeon River by the Grand Portage will be the boundary, if our commissioners can come to any reasonable decision.  If not, I have no doubt, upon a reference, we shall gain the Kamanistiquia, if properly managed; the whole of the evidence being in favor of it.”