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This remark intended to include all, even the stunted Esquimaux, 

 the Hyperborean, from the frozen North, to the half-clad Fuegian, a 

 being sunk down to zero in the scale of human intelligence, and by 

 geographical position shoved out to the very terminus of existence, 

 shivering " at the little end of the Hum," where the waves of three 

 oceans meet and wage eternal warfare, to the wild music of crashing 

 icebergs, and the din of the ever-rolling surf. 



To the Indian tribes, thought presents itself under a form con- 

 fused and complex, in which the mind has no consciousness of the ele- 

 ments of which it is composed. Sensations succeed each other so 

 rapidly, that memory and speech, instead of reproducing their signs 

 separately, reflect them altogether in a simple expression. Each ex- 

 pression is a complete organism, of which the parts are not only ap- 

 pendices of one another, but are often enclosed within each other, 

 or are tightly interlocked, or imbricated to such a degree, that one 

 might compare them to blades of herbage in a grass- plat. 



For instance, when a Delaware woman is playing with a little dog 

 or cat, she will frequently say : " Kuligatschis ! " that is : Give me 

 your pretty little paio^! or What a pretty little paw you have ! Thia 

 word is thus compounded: "A;" inseparable pronoun, rendered 

 thou, or thy : "aZt" (pronounced oolee,) part of the word ^' wulit,'^ 

 signifying handsome, or pretty : '^ gat,^' part of the word " wichgat,'' 

 meaning leg, or paw: "srA^s,"' (pronounced schees,) conveying the 

 idea of littleness, and by a different gesture she either indicates a 

 command, or expresses admiration. 



In the same manner '^ pilape,'' a youth, is. formed from -^pilsit,'* 

 chaste, innoceat and " lenape," a man. It is difficult to find a more 

 elegant combination of ideas, in a single word of any existing idiom. 



Indeed, the multitude of ideas, which in the American languages 

 are combined with their verbs, has justly attracted the attention of 

 the learned in all parts of the world. 



For example, when two verbs with intermediate ideas are combined 

 together into one, as in Delaware : " a schingiwijjoma,'^ I do not like 

 to eat icith hijn, or according to the idiom Chili, '■' iduanclodavin," I 

 do not ivish to eat with him, there is sufficient cause to wonder, partic- 

 ularly when we compare the complication of these languages, with 

 the simplicity of the Chinese and its kindred dialects in the Old 

 World ; from which the Monogenists, or advocates of the doctrine 

 of the Unity of the Human Species, also claim that they were derived 



