Mr. Johnstone, of Aloor, near Edinburgh, Scotland, brings me a note of introduction from Gen. James Talmadge, of New York.  Mr. J. is a highly respected man at home, and is traveling in America to gratify a laudable curiosity.

7th.  Reached Mackinack, on board the steamer Great Western, Capt.  Walker.

10th. The Albany Evening Journal has a short editorial under the head of Algic Researches:  “Such is the title of a work from our countryman Schoolcraft, which the Harpers have just published, in two volumes.  It consists of Tales and Legends, which the Author has gleaned in the course of his long and familiar intercourse with the children of the Forest, illustrating the mental powers and characteristics of the North American Indians.

“Mr. Schoolcraft has traveled far into the western wilds.  He has lived much with the Indians, and has studied their character thoroughly.  He is withal a scholar and a gentleman, whose name is a sufficient guarantee for the excellence of all he writes.”

11th.  I set out to complete the appraisement of the Indian improvements on the north shore of Lake Huron, under the 8th article of the treaty of March 28th, 1836.

12th.  Paid the Indians of L’Arbre Croche villages at Little Traverse Bay, the amount of the appraisement of their public improvements, made under the treaty of 1836.

13th.  Proceed to Grand Traverse Bay, to view the location of a mission by Messrs. Dougherty and Fleming.  Found it located on the sands, near the bottom of the bay, where a vessel could not unload, at a point so utterly destitute of advantages that it would not have been possible to select a worse site in the compass of the whole bay, which is large, and abounds in ship harbors.  Condemned the site forthwith, and the same day removed the site of operations to Kosa’s village, on a bay near the end of the peninsula.  I afterwards encamped on the open lake shore, behind a sand drift, to avoid the force of the wind, and, as soon as the waters of the lake lulled, made the traverse to the Beaver Islands, to appraise the value of the Indian improvements at that place, and, having done this, put across to the main shore north, for the same purpose.  In this trip Mr. Turner accompanied me to keep the lists, and Dr. Douglass to vaccine the Indians, the latter of whom reported 214 persons as having submitted to receive the virus.

The Albany papers continue to publish notices of Algic Researches.  The Argus of the 13th June, says:  “Mr. H.R.  Schoolcraft has added another to his claims upon the consideration of the reading public, by a recent work (from the press of the Messrs. Harper), entitled ’Algic Researches, comprising inquiries respecting the mental characteristics of the North American Indians.’  It is the first of a series, which the author promises to continue at a future day, illustrative of the mythology, distinctive opinions, and intellectual character of the aborigines.  These volumes comprise their oral tales, with preliminary observations and a general introduction.  The term Algic, is introduced by the author, in a generic sense, for all the tribes, with few exceptions, that were found in 1600 spread out between the Atlantic and the Mississippi.