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Alexander Mackenzie's Travels, is called Atna. It has no 

 direct affinity with the present tongue. A hypothetical solu- 

 tion of this coincidence lies in the fact, that in the Athabascan 

 languages the root d-n, or t-n — man. That the Kenayes call 

 themselves Tnai, or Tnaina = men^ is specially stated by Baer, 

 p. 103. 



19. The Koltshany vacabulary of Wrangell. — See Baer's 

 Beitrage. The tables of the work in question shew the 

 language to be undoubted Kolooch. 



20. The Sitca vocabularies — numerous. Cook's Norfolk 

 Sound ; the Sitca of Lisiansky ; the Sitca of Davidoff (see 

 ArchsDologia Americana) ; the Sitca of Wrangell. According 

 to Captain Bryant, it is spoken from N. lat. 59° to 5° S. by 

 twenty tribes. The number of individuals who speak it 

 reckoned by Mr Green, an American missionary, at 6500 — see 

 Archseologia Americana. The standard Kolooch is that of 

 Sitca or Norfolk Sound. 



21. The Tunghaase of Mr Tolmie. Of this, the most south- 

 ern dialect of Russian America, we find a short vocabulary in 

 the Transactions of the Boyal Geographical Society. It is 

 truly stated to be closely allied to the Sitca. 



That there are no more than two groups required for the 

 classification of the above-mentioned languages, and that these 

 are the Esquimaux and the Kolooch, seems evident. That 

 these groups are of no high value may be shewn. It is un- 

 doubtedly true, that if we only compare isolated vocabularies 

 with each other we shall find little but points of contrast. And 

 we find less than might be expected even when we compare 

 groups of vocabularies. 



1. The tables of Baer, exhibiting three languages for the 

 Esquimaux and five for the Kolooch group, give scarcely half 

 a dozen words common to the two. 



2. The table of Lisiansky, with the Unalashkan and Cadi- 

 ack on the one side, and the Kenay and Sitca on the other, 

 presents but little more. 



3. The earliest languages with which the Ugalyatmutsi was 

 compared were Esquimaux, and the contrast was insisted upon 

 from the first. 



It is only when we apply what may be called the indirect 



