No. II. 



A Grammar of the Language of the Lenni Lenape or Drla. 

 ware Indians. Translated from the German Manuscript 

 of the late Rev. David Zeisberger, for the . American Phi- 

 losophical Society, by Peter Stephen Duponcmu. 

 Presented to the Society, 2d December 1816. 



fftje ^Translator's iprrfarr. 



THE astonishing progress which the comparative science 

 of languages has made within the last thirty years is not 

 among the least important of the many wonders which 

 the present a»;e has produced. The first strong impulse 

 was given towards the close ol the last century by the pub- 

 lication of the Comparative Vocabulary*, compiled by pro- 

 fessor Pallas, under the direction ol the empress Catharine 

 of Russia ; a work indeed better conceived than executed, 

 but which nevertheless has been and still is of ureal use to 

 the learned, in the prosecution ol* philological studies. This 

 work, which was left incomplete, being confined to the lan- 

 guages ol Europe and Asiaf, was followed in this country 



* Liognarom lottos ■ >rl n~ vocabolaria comparativa, augustissims cura 

 collecta. Petrop. 1786—1 787, Ito. 



+ The empress, wishing ber work t" I"- completed, committed it to 

 M. Theodore Jankiewitsch <lr tliriewo, with ■■< view, it i- presumed, 

 that he -li'iulil Dierelj add t" the European and Asiatii words winch Pal 



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