372 Mr. Pickering on Rasles’ Dictionary of 
by the French Canadians, Lénopé, and by us, the Delaware; 
4. The Floridian, or Southern stock. 
The Lenape is the most widely extended of the languages 
spoken eastward of the Mississippi. It is found, in various dia- 
lects, throughout Canada from the coast of Labrador to the mouth 
of Albany River, which falls into Hudson’s Bay, and from thence 
to the Lake of the Woods. All the Indians, indeed, who now 
inhabit this portion of the continent (with the exception of the 
Iroquois, who are by far the least numerous, and are mostly within 
the limits of Canada,) speak dialects of the Lenape. When the 
Europeans arrived in America, these Indians were in possession 
of the eastern coast of this continent, from Virginia to Nova Scotia; 
and hence, as we are informed, they were called Wapanachki, or 
Abenakis, that is, Men of the East, or Eastlanders.* By La 
Hontan and some other writers they were called /gonkins, or as 
more usually written by the French travellers and _ historians, 
Algonquins. 
The generic name, Abenaqui, or, as the author of the follow- 
ing Dictionary writes it, JAbnaki, has not been used by Euro- 
peans in the extended sense above mentioned, — comprehending 
the whole of the Atlantic coast, — but has been restricted to the 
principal tribes or nations which inhabited a part of Canada, 
Nova Scotia, and the adjoining northeastern territory of the 
United States, now called the State of Maine. 
The principal residence or settlement of those Abnakies, 
who inhabited that part of the United states, appears to have 
been the village of Viunrantsouack (as the name is written by 
the author of this Dictionary), which was on the river Kennebec, 
near its confluence with the Sandy River, and about two hundred 
miles east of Boston. The Indian appellation is still preserved 
in our corrupted American name, .Vorridgewock, sometimes writ- 
* Heckewelder’s Historical Account of the Indian Nations, p, 107, 
