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  INDIAN. 
  LINGUISTIC 
  FAMILIES. 
  

  

  treats. 
  In 
  his 
  account 
  Scouler 
  is 
  guided 
  chiefly, 
  to 
  use 
  his 
  own 
  

   words, 
  "hy 
  considerations 
  founded 
  on 
  their 
  physical 
  character, 
  man- 
  

   ners 
  and 
  customs, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  affinities 
  of 
  their 
  languages." 
  As 
  the 
  

   linguistic 
  considerations 
  are 
  mentioned 
  last, 
  so 
  they 
  appear 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  

   least 
  weighty 
  of 
  his 
  "considerations." 
  

  

  Scolder's 
  definition 
  of 
  a 
  family 
  is 
  very 
  broad 
  indeed, 
  and 
  in 
  his 
  

   "Northern 
  Family," 
  which 
  is 
  a 
  branch 
  of 
  his 
  "Insular 
  Group," 
  he 
  

   includes 
  such 
  distinct 
  linguistic 
  stocks 
  as 
  "all 
  the 
  Indian 
  tribes 
  in 
  

   the 
  Russian 
  territory," 
  the 
  Queen 
  Charlotte 
  Islanders, 
  Koloshes, 
  

   Ugalentzes, 
  Atnas, 
  Kolchans, 
  Kenaies, 
  Tun 
  Ghaase, 
  Haidahs, 
  and 
  

   Chimmesyans. 
  His 
  Nootka-Columbian 
  family 
  is 
  scarcely 
  less 
  incon- 
  

   gruous, 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  evident 
  that 
  the 
  classification 
  indicated 
  is 
  only 
  to 
  a 
  

   comparatively 
  slight 
  extent 
  linguistic. 
  

  

  1846. 
  Hale 
  (Horatio). 
  

  

  United 
  States 
  exploring 
  expedition, 
  during 
  the 
  years 
  1838, 
  1839, 
  1840, 
  1841, 
  

   1842, 
  under 
  the 
  command 
  of 
  ( 
  lharles 
  Wilkes, 
  U. 
  S. 
  Navy, 
  vol. 
  6, 
  ethnog- 
  

   raphy 
  and 
  philology. 
  Philadelphia, 
  1846. 
  

   In 
  addition 
  to 
  a 
  large 
  amount 
  of 
  ethnographic 
  data 
  derived 
  from 
  

   the 
  Polynesian 
  Islands, 
  Micronesian 
  Islands, 
  Australia, 
  etc., 
  more 
  

   than 
  one-half 
  of 
  this 
  important 
  volume 
  is 
  devoted 
  to 
  philology, 
  a 
  

   large 
  share 
  relating 
  to 
  the 
  tribes 
  of 
  northwestern 
  America. 
  

  

  The 
  vocabularies 
  collected 
  by 
  Hale, 
  and 
  the 
  conclusions 
  derived 
  

   by 
  him 
  from 
  study 
  of 
  them, 
  added 
  much 
  to 
  the 
  previous 
  knowledge 
  

   of 
  the 
  languages 
  of 
  these 
  tribes. 
  His 
  conclusions 
  and 
  classification 
  

   were 
  in 
  the 
  main 
  accepted 
  by 
  Gallatin 
  in 
  his 
  linguistic 
  writings 
  of 
  

  

  ISIS. 
  

  

  t 
  sli>. 
  Latham 
  (Robert 
  Gordon). 
  

  

  Miscellaneous 
  contributions 
  to 
  the 
  ethnography 
  of 
  North 
  America. 
  In 
  Pro- 
  

   ceedings 
  of 
  the 
  Philological 
  Society 
  of 
  London. 
  London, 
  1846, 
  vol. 
  2. 
  

  

  In 
  this 
  article, 
  which 
  was 
  read 
  before 
  the 
  Philological 
  Society, 
  

   January 
  24, 
  1845, 
  a 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  North 
  American 
  languages 
  are 
  

   examined 
  and 
  their 
  affinities 
  discussed 
  in 
  support 
  of 
  the 
  two 
  follow- 
  

   ing 
  pi 
  ist 
  ulates 
  made 
  at 
  the 
  beginning 
  of 
  the 
  paper: 
  First, 
  "No 
  Amer- 
  

   ican 
  language 
  has 
  an 
  isolated 
  position 
  when 
  compared 
  with 
  the 
  other 
  

   tongues 
  en 
  masse 
  rather 
  than 
  with 
  the 
  language 
  of 
  any 
  particular 
  

   class;" 
  second, 
  "The 
  affinities 
  between 
  the 
  language 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  

   World, 
  as 
  determined 
  by 
  their 
  vocabularies, 
  is 
  not 
  less 
  real 
  than 
  that 
  

   inferred 
  from 
  the 
  analogies 
  of 
  their 
  grammatical 
  structure." 
  The 
  

   author's 
  conclusions 
  are 
  that 
  both 
  statements 
  are 
  substantiated 
  by 
  

   the 
  evidence 
  presented. 
  The 
  paper 
  contains 
  no 
  new 
  family 
  names. 
  

  

  1847. 
  Prichard 
  (James 
  Cowles). 
  

  

  Researches 
  into 
  the 
  physical 
  history 
  of 
  mankind 
  (third 
  edition), 
  vol. 
  5, 
  con- 
  

   taining 
  researches 
  into 
  the 
  history 
  of 
  the 
  Oceanic 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  American 
  

   nations. 
  London, 
  1S47. 
  

   It 
  was 
  the 
  purpose 
  of 
  this 
  author, 
  as 
  avowed 
  by 
  himself, 
  to 
  deter- 
  

   mine 
  whether 
  the 
  races 
  of 
  men 
  are 
  the 
  cooffspring 
  of 
  a 
  single 
  stock 
  

   or 
  have 
  descended 
  respectively 
  from 
  several 
  original 
  families. 
  Like 
  

  

  