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THE IRIS.




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Souvenir

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                               THE IRIS:
                       An Illuminated Souvenir,
                                  FOR
                               MDCCCLII.

                               EDITED BY
                         JOHN S. HART, LL. D.

                             PHILADELPHIA:
                 PUBLISHED BY LIPPINCOTT, GRAMBO & CO.
                   SUCCESSORS TO GRIGG, ELLIOT & CO.
                                 1852.




  Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851,
  BY LIPPINCOTT, GRAMBO & CO.,
  In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of
    Pennsylvania.

  C. SHERMAN, PRINTER.




PREFACE.


Captain Eastman, of the United States Topographical Corps, having
been stationed for nine years on our northwestern frontier, among the
Indian tribes, at and around Fort Snelling, made a series of drawings
of some of the most striking and remarkable objects connected with the
Indian traditions. His accomplished lady, who was with him seven years
of this time, collected the traditions themselves, and wove them into
tales and poems that let us into the very heart of Indian life. The
whole of this valuable and original collection has been secured for the
Iris, and gives to the volume for 1852