this, as the blow he received had only been stunning, and the copious bleeding, as is usual in such cases, had soon restored consciousness.  He then settled at Albany, a place of comparative safety, and devoted himself in old age to instruction.  He left a numerous family.  His son John, who embraced the medical profession, became a distinguished man in Washington County (N.Y.), where his science, as a practitioner, and his talents as a politician, rendered him alike eminent.  But he embraced the politics of Burr, a man whose talents he admired, when that erratic man ran for Governor of the State, and shortly after died.  Five daughters married respectable individuals in the county, all of whom have left families.  Of such threads of genealogy is the base of society in all parts of America composed.  One of her granddaughters, now living in Paris, is a lady entitled to respect, on various accounts.  Deborah, whose death is announced, married in early life, as her first husband, John Schoolcraft, Jr., Esq., a most gifted son of one of the actors and patriots of the revolution—­a man who was engaged in one of its earliest movements; who shared its deepest perils, and lived long to enjoy its triumphs.  The early death of this object of her choice, induced her in after years to contract a second marriage with an enterprising son of Massachusetts (R.  Johnson), with whom she migrated to Detroit.  Death here again, in a few years, left her free to rejoin her relatives in Albany, where, at last at ease in her temporal affairs, she finally fell a victim to consumption, at a not very advanced age, meeting her death with the calmness and preparedness of a Christian.

     “As those we love decay, we die in part.”

25th.  Returned to Michilimackinack, at a quarter past one o’clock, A.M., from my trip to the north, for the appraisal of the Indian improvements.

31st.  According to observations kept, the average temperature of the month of August (lat. 42 deg.) was 69.16 degrees.  Last year the average temperature of the same month was sixty-five degrees.  The average temperature of the entire summer of 1838 was 70.85; while that of the summer of 1837 was but 65.48.  Our lakes must sink with such a temperature, if the comparative degree of heat has been kept up in the upper lakes during the year.

Sept. 4th.  Troops arrive at Fort Mackinack to attend the payments.

An officer of the army, who has spent a year or so in Florida, and has just returned to Michigan, says:  “I have seen much that was well worth seeing, am much wiser than I was before, and am all the better contented with a lot midway of the map.  The climate of Florida, during the winter, was truly delicious, but the summers, a part of one of which I saw and felt, are uncomfortable, perhaps more so than our winters.  This puts the scales even, if, it do not incline the balance in our favor.  The summer annoyances of insects, &c., are more than a counterbalance for our ice and snow, especially when we can rectify their influences by a well-warmed house.”