The position on the Red River and that at the Sault of St. Marie are the only new posts that have been taken.

We were seven days from the Sault to the Point, at which place we arrived in a cold rain storm, half starved, lame, and tired.

" About the middle of September I embarked at the Sault for Detroit, for the purpose chiefly of meeting the Secretary of Wartaking with me thus far, my little sister Anna Maria, on her way to school at Hadley, in Massachusetts.

I had determined to return to the Sault by way of Lake Superior, through Chippewa River.

" My brother James gives a somewhat amusing account of Indian matters at the Sault after the leaving of their delegates for Washington.

Mr. Hulbert arrived from the Sault in the morning, bringing letters from Rev. Mr. Clark, Mr. Audrain, my sub-agent at that point, &c. 18th.

she has poysond me, her lips Are sault as sulpher, and her breath infects, Noe scorpions like it.

Mrs. Schoolcraft writes from the Sault, that Mrs. Jameson and the children suffered much on the trip to that place from mosquitoes, but by dint of a douceur of five dollars extra to the men, which Mrs. Jameson made to the crew, they rowed all night, from Sailor's encampment, and reached the Sault at 6 o'clock in the morning.