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French, all the French are not liberal, Hechon only is so. 

 Stante hennon^eseji hatmeti cV hatinnionenhalc, haoiihva or 

 honvesenhechon — or the French are stingy, Hechon alone is 

 liberal ; hotinnonste cl' /latinnionenhak, hao7ihaahonvesen 

 hechon, or rather all the ecclesiastics are liberal, but 

 Hechon is so above all; ha/iaeti hermonaesen iVhalit si hen- 

 statsi onekichien chiaat, and sondera'ti de hechon. Also the 

 superlative is expressed very well by particles, arai^oii^ or 

 arai^ochien joined to an adjective, as, arai%tiaj)ndifinr'a- 

 chens — we are very sad. 



Of prepositions. 



From Huron particles which answer to prepositions in 

 Latin some put before, others aften Of those which are 

 put before some are separable, as, eta^^e — beneath ; achuvi 

 ?™above, upward — others inseperable, as, 



lo. — A^, which we call a particle of repitition, unity and 

 excess. 



2o. — 7", which is the mark of distance of time or place. 



3o. — Z<?, the affirmative of duality, division or perpetuity 

 find totality, &c. To, at, in, are expressed by some one 

 of the absolute particles, ^e, ke, ske, ?ide. In words ending 

 in t or k, ke is put after in place of the said letters, as, 

 vtentake — at ; handotonk a^atonnhatake — at the end of my 

 life; fih'achenke — during the council ; orikventandi^e — at 

 the end of the affair. With those ending in s or ch, in 

 place of these is put; skcandachiake — at; atulac/dach's. — 

 In other words having other terminations, at one time ,e 

 at another tide is put after them, as, hechunde, ondcn'dc, 

 onsaaatatroyihundi^e — in confession. To the four questions 

 of place, where, whence, whither and which way, it is 

 answered in the same manner by that final, findata^e ex, as, 

 Un'nenihentron — where is he ? ^andata^c — he is in the vil- 



