174 Dr John Sconler on the Indian Tribes 



7. BelUchoola. — This family comprehends but a small 

 number of tribes, speaking, however, a peculiar language. 

 They live on the Salmon River and Dean's Canal, where 

 they were visited by M'Kenzie on his journey to the Pacific 

 Ocean. The small vocabulary collected by M'Kenzie, leaves 

 no doubt, as Dr Tolmie and Dr Latham observes, that the 

 Indians found by M'Kenzie at Friendly Village, belongs to 

 the BelUchoola tribe. 



We have classified the Koluschians, Haidah, Chimmesyans, 

 BelUchoola, and Haeeltruk, as distinct families of Indians, 

 and the distinction will hold good even if their languages 

 should be proved to belong to one general tongue, of which 

 they are respectively modifications. The languages of any 

 of these tribes is unintelligible to the others ; but, at the 

 same time, the number of words common to them all induce 

 us to suppose, that, with more copious vocabularies, many 

 affinities might be detected and discrepancies removed, 



8. Kawitchen. — The following tribes belong to this family : — 



1. Commagsheak. Gulph of Georgia, Northern Part. 



2. Kawitchen. Gulph of Georgia, Southern Part. 



3. QuaiUin. Frazer's River. 



4. Noosdalum. Hood's Canal. 



5. Squaltyamish. Puget's Sound. 



6. Atnas. 



The table of tribes speaking the Kawitchen, and of their 

 habitations, indicates the extent of country over which the 

 language prevails. It extends along the shores of the Gulf 

 of Georgia on the mainland, opposite Vancouver's Island, and 

 south to Puget's Sound, where it approaches the Cowlitch 

 River. Dr Tolmie has supplied three vocabularies, those of 

 the Kawitchen, Noosdalum, and Squallyamish, which appear 

 to be so many dialects of the same original language ; the 

 Squallyamish, however, exhibiting the greatest amount of 

 variation. The Atna Indians of M'Kenzie are, as Dr Latham 

 suggests, a branch of the Kawitchen family, and have for 

 neighbours the Athabascans. 



9. Nootkans. 



1. Naspatle ; 2. Naotkans ; 3. Tlaoquatch ; 4. Nit- 



