Query. Is not
this the origin of the name Quebec?
_May 2d_. Major Garland, my predecessor in the disbursements, writes
from Washington: "You have a heavy task on your hands for this season;
and, in addition to the hands of Briareus, you will need the eyes
of Argus."
_3d_. I made the payments to the Saginaw chiefs in specie, under the
treaty of the 14th of January, 1837.
_10th_. Mr. F.W. Shearman, the able and ingenious editor of the _Journal
of Education_, writes from Marshall, that it receives an increased
circulation and excites a deeper interest in the people, with his plans
for further improvements.
_16th_. Letters from Mackinack informs me that the Ottawas design
leaving their location in the United States for the Manitouline Islands,
in Canada, where inducements are held out to them by agents of the
British government. They fear going west: they cling to the north.
_20th_. The Harpers, publishers at New York, send me copies of the first
issue of my _Algic Researches_, in two vols.
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