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Mr John Howard Payne, N. York Brainerd April 5 1857 166

 Dear Sir     If I have burthernd? you with trash? not worthy your nature? yet you will bear with me, as a desire to please and gratify you, sir, as far as practicable, has been, with me, one important object.   What I have communicated, is what I have received from the Chreokees, and what, I believe, they communicated sincerely. But should we examine the whole again, we should doubtless find many errors, and imperfections. Having had no written language, it may well be supposed that many of their antiquities are lost, and many are handed down connected with some degree of error.