  | Page. | | Letter from the Secretary of State, laying the result of the census before the Senate, | 1 | | Statistical report, communicating the census returns, | 3 | | Letter transmitting supplemental report on their past and present history, | 21 | | I. Historical and Ethnological Minutes, | 25 | | a. Sketch of the Iroquois Groups of Aboriginal Tribes, | 25 | | b. Ethnological suggestions, | 33 | | c. Indian Cosmogony, | 36 | | d. Gleams of their ancient general history, | 38 | | II. Origin and History of the Iroquois, as a distinct people, | 41 | | a. Mohawks, | 43 | | b. Oneidas and the Oneida stone, (with three engravings,) | 46 | | c. Onondagas, (with a figure,) | 54 | | d. Cayugas, | 57 | | e. Senecas and their origin, | 59 | | f. Tuscaroras, and their flight from North Carolina, | 64 | | g. Necariages, | 69 | | h. St. Regis colony, | 70 | | III. Epoch and Principles of the Iroquois League, | 73 | | a. Considerations, | 73 | | b. Era of the confederacy, | 73 | | c. Principles of their government and Totemic Bond, | 76 | | d. Ancient worship and system of astronomy, | 85 | | e. Witchcraft, its theory and practical evils, | 87 | | f. Wife’s right to property—limited nature of marriage contract, | 88 | | IV. ArchÆology, | 91 | | a. Vestiges of an ancient French fort in Lenox, (with a plan,) | 93 |   |
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