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to their actual solution. Our investigations are everywhere hampered by a lack of accu- 

 rate knowledge, sometimes even by that of any knowledge. 



The only conclusions at which we have arrived are these : that the ethnography of 

 the inland tribes and of those inhabiting the northern and southern parts of the coast 

 must be studied before we can solve the question as to the origin of Northwest American 

 culture, and that the latter has had its origin in three different regions and among three 

 different peoples. 



Note. — In explanation of florae of tlie above phonetic equivalents: 



e (ital.) = e in " answer." 



k" = a deep guttural. 



q = German cl» in " Bacli." 



h (ital.) = German ell in " ich." 



tl = exploded 1. 



Ç = tU in " thin." 



Sec. II, 1888. 8. 



