They carry the national history back about two centuries, beyond which all is professedly mythical.

Although both translations are colored by the peculiar views of their makers, this is incomparably the most complete and valuable work on American mythology extant.
Another authority of inestimable value has been placed within the reach of scholars during the last few years.

This is the _Relations de la Nouvelle France_, containing the annual reports of the Jesuit missionaries among the Iroquois and Algonkins from and after 1611.

My references to this are always to the reprint at Quebec, 1858.

Of not less excellence for another tribe, the Creeks, is the brief "Sketch of the Creek Country," by Col.