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again assemble at the National Heptagon, when and the others, unite with them in a general banquet upon the new fruits; and this completes the Second of the Great Festivals of the earliest times. The third in succession is called Tung, nah, kaw, hoongh-ni; -Mature, or Ripe, Green Corn (Maize) Feast; - and took place some forty or fifty days after the other, when the corn had grown hard and perfect; - the preparations for which all important Festival were these: Through the seven prime Counsellors, having ascertained the state of the corn (maize), summoned a religious dance. They here made known the time fixed for the Festival, which usually followed the Dance in about twenty days. They sent out the Metropolitan hunters as before; and set apart the customary officers to be ready for their respective duties at the appointed time. Among the special instructions for this particular occasion, - and which were understood to have been enjoined with more than usual precision, directly, and in the beginning of time, by the Being who dwells on High, it was ordered that an arbour of green boughs should be framed in the Sacred Square of the National Heptagon, where a beautiful shade tree was to be set; and a large booth