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Prince has analyzed below. Harris has only a vague and dis- 
connected idea of the language. What little he knows he learned 
in early youth from his grandmother, one of the Mawee family, 
who, according to his statement, had a connected speaking know- 
ledge of the ancient idiom. The present Skaghticokes are Indians 
more by tradition than fact, and with the single exception of Harris 
have little of interest to impart to Americanists. 
The name Skaghticoke was originally pronounced 7’ sha‘tikuk, 
z.¢., ‘fat the forked river,’’ from the same stem as Abenaki 
fp skaot’ kwen ‘*branch’’-++the ending -¢vkw, which always means 
“*river’’ incomposition. The river-names Piscataquis (Maine) and 
Piscataqua (New Hampshire) are undoubtedly corruptions of the 
same word and have an identical meaning (see Prince, American 
folklore Journal, 1900, pp. 125 ff.). 
: FRANK G. SPECK. 
Thanks to the efforts of Mr. Speck, who is a student in my 
department in Columbia University, a modern form of the ancient 
Pequot-Mohegan dialect has been discovered in its last throes (see 
Prince and Speck, American Anthropologist, V, pp. 193-212). 
Mr. Speck has now found the still more scanty remains of another 
Connecticut language, that of the Skaghticokes, which, as will appear 
from the following exposition, is probably the last surviving remnant 
of the Delaware-Mohican idiom formerly used at Stockbridge, 
Mass., which was expounded by J. Edwards, Jr., and J. Sergeant 
(see Pilling, Bibliography of the Algonquian Languages, s. v. these 
authors). This Skaghticoke language is distinctly not a New Eng- 
land product, but came from the Hudson river region with that 
branch of the Lenni Lenape called Mohicans who settled at quite 
an early date on the site of Stockbridge, Mass. This AZohican 
idiom is only indirectly connected with the AZohegan1-Pequot lan- 
guage just mentioned, found by Speck at Mohegan, near Norwich, 
Conn. Perhaps the longest specimen of the Stockbridge Mohican 
tongue has been preserved in J. Quinney’s Assembly Catechism, 
printed at Stockbridge in 1795. For the modern dialect of the 
Delaware Lenape, see Prince, American Journal of Philology, XX1, 
Pp. 295-302. 
1Nete that Mohican and Mohegan, although both forms of the same word; 
are now used purely arbitrarily, the first to indicate the Hudson River Lenapian 
Mohican clan, and the second to denote the Pequot mixed race at Mohegan, near 
Norwich, Conn. 
