IKOQUOIAN LANGUAGES. 



121 



Mohawk. lalerpretatioii du mandement 

 de I Ms'' I'fivequc de Quebec pour des 

 iictions I de graces publiques. 



Manuscii[)t, 1 1. S'', in tlie library of Major .T. 

 W. Powell, Washington, D. C. 



MoliaAwk. Petit dictiouuairo | do la 

 laugue des Iroquois | do la uatiou 

 d'Aguie. 



Manuscript, 82 11. 1G°, in tlie Bibliotlieqno 

 Natiouale, Paris, France, where it is entered 

 under No. 17 in catalogue 327. There la no 

 titlo-page, the text being introduced by the 

 above heading. In two columns, alphabetically 

 arranged by French words, the Iroquois defi- 

 nitions, though usually occupying bat one line, 

 sometimes taking two and not infrequently 

 three. The character 8 is used for the sound of 

 w. The catalogue of the library ascribes it to 

 the seventeenth century. 



See La G-alissonnitre ( — ). 

 Mohawk, t \ vine Jesus j Priucipes De La 

 Laugue | Iro(iuoise. | Cette Lauguo a 5 

 parties | La l'' Des principes j La ••2''° Des 

 remarquessurlespriiici | pes | La 3'"" La 

 table des Relatious eu | abreg^ le plus 

 an long des conjugaisous eu abrego au 

 long 1 la 4'"'' vne nomenclature en abregc 

 I du dictiounaire | La 5™" Les Eaciues. 

 I Premiere Partie | Des Priucipes. | 

 Cbapitre Premier | De I'alpbabet. 



Manuscript of the latter part of the seven- 

 teenth century, 11. 1-131, unnumbered, 12°, 

 bound. In tlio archives of the Catholic Church 

 at the mission Lac des Deux Montagues, Oka, 

 Canada. 



Title recto 1. 1, verso Do I'alphabet.— 

 Chapitro 2, Du verbe, rectol. 2. — Second partie, 

 Des remarques sur la grammaire, recto 1. 13. — 

 Jlemarcpies des dialoctcs [hurou, tsonont8an, 

 orogSen, onontage, onci8t, agnicrj, recto 1. 14. — 

 Des coniugaisons, verso 1. 15. — Remarques sur 

 I'ordrc dudictionairo, recto 1. 17. — LI. 21-23and 

 recto 1. 21 are blank.— Les conjugaisons, verso 

 1. 24 and recto 1. 25.— LI. 20-27 are blank.— L. 28 

 begins II y a 3 routes etc., verso blank, as is 

 also 1. 29 and recto of 1. 30. — Premiere conjug.ii- 

 son du paradigmo;; begins verso of 1. 30, ends 

 recto 1. 32, the verso of which is blank, as are 

 also 11. 33-51.— Kacines agnieres, recto 1. 52. — 

 Paradigme (7, verso 1. 52, continuing, with the 

 exception of occasional blank leaves, to ver.so 

 of 1. C5.— The recto of 1. CG is blank. 



On verso of 1. 60 is the beginning of a dic- 

 tionary, theMohawk in one column, the French 

 in another ; it contains only words beginning 

 with the letter n and ends on recto of 1. Or*, on 

 the verso of which is: Verbes do la seconde 

 conjugaison du iiaradigtue ij. This occupies 

 the versos of 11. 08-78, the recto.s being blank. — 

 Verbes relatifs 2'", versos 11. 79-SG ; rectos blank. 

 — De rallinuatif 2=, versos 11. 87-88.— Noma do 

 la 2'^' conjug., verso 1. f9 to vorso of 1. 93. — Vcr- 



Traitd de la grammaire | bi- 



Mohawk — Coutiuued. 



bes de la 3""', verso 11. 91-93.— Reltitifs de la S""", 

 verso 1. 9G.— Nomsdela3""', verso 1.97. — Verbes 

 de la 4'"", verso 1. 98.— IJelatifs de la 1™", verso 

 1. 09.— iSTorasdelal'"', vorso 1. 100.— Verbesab.so- 

 lus de la 5""", verso 11. 101-102. — Relations de la 

 5™« conjugaison, verso 1. 102. — Noma do la 5""", 

 verso 1. 103.— Paradigme 8 l^ versos 11. 101-105. 

 — Xoms de la 1", verso 1. 100. — Verbes de la 2, 

 8\ versos 11. 107-110.— De I'afBrmatif de la 2<'^ 

 versos 11. 111-112. — Ifoms de la 2'''', versos 11. 

 1 13-110.-, Verbes de la 3, ver.so 1. 117.- Verbes 

 de la 5, Noms de la 5'"<', verso 1. 118. — Nomen- 

 clature en abrege, verso 1. 119 to verso 1. 120. — 

 LI. 121-131 arebhrnk. 



The following is probably an incomplete 

 copy of the above manuscript: 



Mohaw^k. 



rokoise 



Manuscript, 23 unnumbered and 11 blank 11. 

 12°, in the library of J. W. Powell, Washing- 

 ton, D. G. There is no titleqjage, tlie text im- 

 mediately following the heading, as above. 

 From the introduction it appears that the work 

 vas not finished, the opening sentence saying: 

 "Cette grammaire a cin(i parties: la ijremifiro 

 les principes de la langue, la seconde les remar- 

 ques sur les i^rincipes, la troisi^me la table dea 

 • relations en abreg6 h celles des conjugaisons, 

 la quatrieme uue nomenclature en abreg6 du 

 dictiounaire, la cinqui6me les racinea." — Pre- 

 miere partie: Des principes. Chapitre pre- 

 mier, De I'alphabet etpronouciation des lettres, 

 recto 1. 1.— Chapitro 2, Du verbe, verso 1. 1. — 

 Chajiitro [3], Du pronom possessif, verso 1. 10. — 

 Seconde partie: Les remarques sur la gram- 

 maire, recto 1. 12.— Remarques sur les dialectes, 

 ver.so 1. 12.— Les conjugaisons du paradigme g, 

 verso 1. 14 to recto 1. 23. 



Mohaw^k. Vie de Tobie. 



Manuscript, 39 pp. folio, in the Mohawk lan- 

 guage, by a Sulpician at the mission of Lacdo.s 

 Deux Montagues, Canada; in the archives of 

 the Roman Catholic Church at Caughnawaga, 

 Canada. 



