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AFFILIATION OF THE ALGONQUIN LANGUAGES. 25 
There is hardly a single particular in all the above description 
which is not equally applicable to the Ojibbeway or any other mem- 
ber of the Algonquin family. 
The precise form Lenni Lenape I have not yet met with in any 
Malay or Polynesian locality as a national or tribal designation, but 
the analogous forms Oran Benua, Oran Malaya, Oran Akkye, suffi- 
ciently shew whence the Delawares derived their title. The Javanese 
and Malagasy forms lanan and ulun, which take the place of the 
Malay oran, help to make the coincidence all but complete. As 
confirmatory evidence of the connection which I have established, I 
add comparisons of the personal pronouns and of a number of mis- 
cellaneous words in the two families related, comparisons which might 
be indefinitely extended. 
The preparation of this paper having been made somewhat hurriedly 
in the midst of many other engagements, in order to bring the facts 
discovered as soon as possible before the Institute, I crave the 
indulgence of its members for unavoidable imperfections, trusting 
that the results obtained may not be without value to students of 
American antiquities and the science of comparative philology. 
