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On the Languages of the Oregon Territory. 



within the Oregon Territory, or within the districts imme- 

 diately to the north of it. 



3. The Najail. See Mackenzie's Travels. 



4. The Taculli. See Archoeol. Americ., ii. 305. 



Such are the vocabularies for the Oregon Territory of 

 North America. In number they amount to forty-one. Deal- 

 ing with speech as the instrument of intercourse, it is higlily 

 probable that these vocabularies ma}^ represent as many as 

 nineteen different languages, that is, modes of speech, mu- 

 tually unintelligible. Dealt with, however, ethnologically, 

 their number is evidently capable of being reduced. 



In the present state of our knowledge, it is convenient to 

 leave the Shoshonie language* unplaced. All that we possess 

 of it is the vocabulary noticed above. It consists of only 

 twenty-four woi'ds. Their affinities (such as they are) are 

 miscellaneous 



• Since this statement was read, the author has been enableJ, through the 

 means of a Cumanche vocabulary, with which he was favoured by Mr BoUaertt 

 to determine that these two languages are allied. 



