CONTENTS

OF

No. L.

NEW SERIES, NO. XXV.

ART.

I. AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS

PAGE.

1

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society,

for promoting useful Knowledge. Vol. II. New Series.

II. HILLHOUSE'S HADAD

13

Hadad, a Dramatic Poem. By James A. Hillhouse.

III. GREENLEAF'S REPORTS

27

Reports of Cases, argued and determined in the Su-

preme Judicial Court of the State of Maine. By Simon

Greenleaf.

IV. DEMOSTHENES

34

Demosthenis Opera, ad Optimorum Librorum Fidem
accurate Edita.

V. INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA

53

1. Manners and Customs of several Indian Tribes,

located west of the Mississippi, including some Account

of the Soil, Climate, and vegetable Productions; and

the Indian Materia Medica; to which is prefixed the

History of the Author's Life, during a Residence of seve-

ral Years among them. By John D. Hunter.

2. Historical Notes respecting the Indians of North

America, with Remarks on the Attempts made to con-

vert and civilise them. By John Halkett, Esq.

VI. HARLAN'S FAUNA AMERICANA

120

Fauna Americana; being a Description of the Mam-

miferous Animals inhabiting North America. By Rich-
ard Harlan.

VII. CLAIMS FOR FRENCH SPOLIATIONS

136

Report of the Committee of Foreign Relations, of the

House of Representatives of the United States, to which

were referred the Memorials of certain Merchants, pray-

ing Relief for Losses sustained by French Spoliations.

1824.

VIIL ALLIANCE OF THE SOUTHERN REPUBLICS

162

Ensayo sobre la Necesidad de una Federacion Jene-

ral entre los Estados Hispano-Americanos, y Plan de su

Organizacion. Por Monteagudo. Lima. 1825.

IX. MEMOIR OF Josiah QUINCY JUNIOR

176

Memoir of Josiah Quincy Junior, of Massachusetts.

By his Son, Josiah Quincy.

X. CRITICAL NOTICES

1. Mellen's Ode for the Celebration of the Battle of

:

Bunker Hill

209

2. Ingersoll's Discourse before the Society for the

Commemoration of the Landing of William

Penn

212

3. Adam's Annals of Portsmouth

215

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222

4. History of the United States

5. Gadsden's Discourse on the occasion of the

Decease of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

6. Gales & Seaton's Register of Debates in Con-

gress

7. Sewall's Medical Lecture at the Opening of

the Medical Department of the Columbian

College

8. Miller's Discourse before the Literary and Phi-

losophical Society of New Jersey

9. Staples's Spanish Grammar

10. Gould's Edition of Adam's Latin Grammar

QUARTERLY LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS

224

225

226

227

228

235

An Essay on the Doctrine of Contracts; being an

Inquiry how Contracts are affected in Law and Morals,

by Concealment, Error, or Inadequate Price. By Gulian

C. Verplanck.

II. SAMARITAN AND HEBREW PENTATEUCH

274

De Pentateuchi Samaritani Origine, Indole, et Auc-

toritate, Commentatio Philologica-critica. Scripsit Gu-
lielmus Gesenius.

III. PERCIVAL'S POEM

317

Poem delivered before the Connecticut Alpha of the

Phi Beta Kappa Society, September 13, 1825. By

James G. Percival.

IV. SANDWICH ISLANDS

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334

Journal of a Tour around Hawaii, the largest of the

Sandwich Islands. By a Deputation from the Mission

on those Islands.

V. MILTON ON CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE

364

A Treatise on Christian Doctrine, compiled from the

Holy Scriptures alone. By John Milton.

VI. MEMOIR OF RICHARD HENRY LEE .

373

Memoir of the Life of Richard Henry Lee, and his

Correspondence with the most distinguished Men in

America and Europe, illustrative of their Characters,

and of the Events of the American Revolution. By his

Grandson, Richard H. Lee.

VII. THE REBELS

400

The Rebels, or Boston before the Revolution. By

the Author of Hobomok.

VIII. SHALER'S SKETCHES OF ALGIERS

409

Sketches of Algiers, Political, Historical, and Civil.

By William Shaler, American Consul General at Al-

giers.

3. Cubi's Traductor Español

4. Proposed Seminary of Education in Massachu-

444

446

451

setts

452

8. Report of the Ohio Canal Commissioners
9. Blunt's Historical Sketch of the Formation of the

Confederacy

10. Mexico

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