25th.  Two bands who had not united in this decision, namely, the bands of Point St. Ignace and Chenos, came in, by their chiefs, and yielded their assent to the arrangement of yesterday.  Thus the consent became unanimous on the part of the Indians.

A notification, by a special messenger, to the Grand River Ottawas, is dispatched to attend the payments at this place on the 1st of September, and to signify their assent or dissent to the proposed arrangement.  Rix Robinson and Louis Campeau, Esqrs., of that valley, and the Rev. Leonard Slater, of Barry, are requested to give this notice publicity.

26th.  Mrs. Jameson embarks in an open boat for Sault Ste. Marie, accompanied by Mrs. Schoolcraft, after having spent a short time as a most intelligent and agreeable inmate under our roof.  This lady, respecting whom I had received letters from my brother-in-law Mr. McMurray, a clergyman of Canada West, evinced a most familiar knowledge of artistic life and society in England and Germany.  Her acquaintance with Goethe, and other distinguished writers, gave a life and piquancy to her conversation and anecdotes, which made us cherish her society the more.  She is, herself, an eminent landscape painter, or rather sketcher in crayon, and had her portfolio ever in hand.  She did not hesitate freely to walk out to prominent points, of which the island has many, to complete her sketches.  This freedom from restraint in her motions, was an agreeable trait in a person of her literary tastes and abilities.  She took a very lively interest in the Indian race, and their manners and customs, doubtless with views of benevolence for them as a peculiar race of man, but also as a fine subject of artistic observation.  Notwithstanding her strong author-like traits and peculiarities, we thought her a woman of hearty and warm affections and attachments; the want of which, in her friends, we think she would exquisitely feel.

Mrs. Jameson several times came into the office and heard the Indians speaking.  She also stepped out on the piazza and saw the wild Indians dancing; she evidently looked on with the eye of a Claude Lorraine or Michael Angelo.

27th.  The term ego, added to an active Indian verb, renders it passive.  I have given an example of this before in the case of a man’s name.  Here is another:  The verb to carry is Be-moan in the Algonquin.  By the pronominal prefix Nim, we have the sense I carry.  By adding to the latter the suffix ego, the action is reflected and this sense is rendered passive.

29th.  A treaty is concluded this day at Fort Snelling, St. Peter’s, between Governor H. Dodge and the Chippewa Indians, by which they cede a large and important tract to the United States.

Aug. 1st.  A discovery of a tooth of the Mastodon has lately been made in the bed of the Papaw River, in Berrian County, Michigan.  It is about six inches long and three broad.  The enamel is nearly perfect, and that part of the tooth which was covered by it nearly whole, while the portion which must have been inserted in the socket is mostly broken off.  The diluvian soil of the Michigan Peninsula is thus added to the wide area of the mastodonic period.