But this faculty, of which we have been permitted to see the manuscript of some elaborate and vigorous trains of thought, did not impede a decided intellectual progress in sterner studies in the sciences and arts.

His mind was early imbued with a thirst of knowledge, and he made such proficiency as to attract the notice of persons of education and taste.

There was developed, too, in him, an early bias for the philosophy of language.

Mr.Van Kleeck, a townsman, in a recent letter to Dr.R.W.Griswold, says:-- "I revert with great pleasure to the scenes of my residence, in the part of Albany County which was also the residence of Henry R.Schoolcraft.

I went to reside at the village of Hamilton, in the town of Guilderland, in 1803.Col.Lawrence Schoolcraft, the father of Henry, had then the direction of the large manufactories of glass, for which that place was long noted.