Brinton.] ^O [Nov. 20, 



do. of orifice of horizontal anteroposterior semicircular canal; vt., do. of 

 vertical transverse canal ; oc, do of os commune of vertical anteropos- 

 terior and vertical transverse canals; aa., do. of anterior ampulla ; V., 

 cast of foramen of fifth pair of nerves. 



Figs. 4, 5 and 6 diagrams of the semicircular canals, natural size. 



Fig. 4, interior view. . 



Fig. 5, anterior view. 



Fig. 6, inferior view. 



The letters signify as follows : aa., anterior ampulla ; ap., posterior 

 ampulla ; hap., horizontal anteroposterior canal ; vap., vertical antero- 

 posterior canal ; vt., vertical transverse canal, enlarged in its upper por- 

 tion, probably accidentally ; cc, canalis communis of the vertical antero- 

 posterior and vertical transverse canals ; oc, os commune of do. 



Note's on the Mingue ; an extinct Dialect formerly spoken in 

 Nicaragua. By Daniel G. Brinton, 31. D. 



(Read before the American Philosophical Society, November 20, 1SS5.) 



Sources. Nothing whatever has been published about the 

 Mangue language, except a list of ninety-five words, by Mr. E. 

 G. Squier in his work, " Nicaragua, its People, Scenery and 

 Monuments." Whence he obtained this short vocabulary he 

 does not state ; but it is evidently the work of some one only 

 slightly acquainted with the character of the language. 1 do not 

 make any use of it in the present notes, except in a few instances 

 for comparison. 



My authorities are, first, Don Juan Eligio de la Rocha's 

 Apuntamientos de la Lengua Mangue, MS. The author was 

 born in Granada, C. A., June 15, 1815. By profession a lawyer, 

 his taste led him to the study of languages, and he acquired a 

 fluent knowledge of French, English and Italian. He was 

 appointed instructor in French and Spanish grammar in 1848 

 in the University of Leon, C. A., and ten years later, 1S58, pub- 

 lished his Elementos de Oramatica Castellana (Leon, 1858, small 

 4to, pp. 199). His death occurred in 1873. 



While living in Masaya in 1842, he became interested in the 

 surviving remnants of the Mangues, and undertook to collect 

 materials for a study of their language. Unfortunately, lie never 

 completed these investigations, and many of the sheets on which 

 he had recorded his notes were scattered. A few of them, how- 



