204 ■^^g^fi 1 749* 



rock of a fine white, loofe, feml-opaque 

 ipar. In fonie places of the river are pieces 

 of rock as big as houfcs, which had rolled 

 from the mountains in fpring. The places 

 they formerly occupied are plainly to be | 

 feen. 



In feveral places, they have eel-traps in 

 the river, like thofe I have before de- 

 fcribed ■\. 



By vvay of amufement, I wrote down a 

 few Algonkin words, which I learnt from a 

 yefuit who has been a long time among 

 \\\Q Algonkins. They call water, mukmnan ; 

 the head, iijiigon ; the heart, uta ; the body, 

 veetras i the foot, uk/uta ; a little boat, 

 itJJj -y a fliip, nabikoan \ fire, Jkute ; hay, 

 mafioofee-y the hare, whabus \ (they have a 

 verb, which exprefies the adlion of hunt- 

 ing hares, derived from the noun) ; the 

 marten, whabijlanis ; the elk, mooju ^* (but 

 fo that the final u is hardly pronounced) ; the 



f See p. 92. of this volume. 



* The famous mocfe-detr is accordingly nothing but an 

 e!k ; for no one can deny the derivation of ?nooJe-deer from 

 imcoju. Confidering efpecially, that before the Jroquefe or 

 Five Nations grew to that power, which they at prefent have 

 all over North- America, the Algonkins were then the leading 

 nation among the Indians, and their language was of courfe 

 then a moft univerfal language over the greater part of 

 North- Ain;rica ; and though they have been very nearly de- 

 ftroyed by the Iroqu/e, their language is fiill more univerfal 

 in Can.ida, than any of the reft. F. 



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