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have much more difficulty in the matter of correct articu- 
lation than do persons of English speech. Nevertheless 
the two races, the French and the Indian, are by tempera- 
ment rather notably acceptable to each other. It has been 
remarked that the Highland Scotch, in particular, learn the 
native dialects well and readily. This peculiarity seems 
more than an accident of linguistics, for the young High- 
landers brought over by the Hudson’s Bay Company not 
only learn the language easily, but marry forthwith, fall 
into the life, and show in their children as encouraging ex- 
amples of such combining of extreme elements, the very 
light and the deep brown, as may well be found. On the 
other hand, the young Englishmen brought over in the 
earlier period of the Hudson’s Bay Company were a notable 
failure in adaptability to the conditions, remaining alien to 
the life and seeking usually a final escape from their sur- 
roundings. 
Analysis of the deeper affinities of the language must be 
left to the linguist; superficially it does not appear to have 
a common origin with any of the European tongues. It 
must be supposed that articulation, at least, is affected by 
climate and mode of life, as is physiognomy as well in the 
case of dwellers upon wind-blown plains. A relation may 
exist between the mild climate of southern Europe and the 
prevailing use of the outer organs of speech by the Latin 
races. The rolling r and the mobile face are hardly to be 
associated with high latitudes. In the north, on the con- 
trary, it might be difficult to find any word in the Algon- 
quian, or in that very different language, the Eskimo, 
which could not be spoken clearly with the face immov- 
able. These are languages which can be used without 
