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box a piece of the tobacco; and then, each plucking off some of the pine leaves from the boughs borne by all the couples but four, and crushing them in the hand, they put them with the tobacco. When this was over, all stood ina circle round the altar fire, and each singly walked towards it, reaching forth his or her hand, as if to throw in the tobacco & leaves, singing "You, You," (as u long); but suddenly they started back, as if reluctant to sacrifice the pine leaves and tobacco ; till, on aproaching the fire, they flung both in together, and the dance closed. ____

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    Having completed the round of Greater Festivals, we proceed to notice the Regular Miner Ones, anciently celebrated at every New Moon, and yet more emphatically at the beginning of each quarter of the year, ____ and also the sacrifice on each seventh day.

    The original New Moon Festivals are supposed to have resembled the primitive form of that of the Nung, tah, ___ tay, quah, or Great new Moon of Autumn; though probably with omisrious?, and, of course, much condensed. It is the prevailing impression that they were held at the respective town, and