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mean the mode in -whicli the numerous class of adjectives represented 

 by such words as wooden, golden, earthen, are formed, namely, by the 

 agglutination of the substantives wood, gold, earth, &c., to the noun 

 whose quality is to be designated. Thus, me-tig-oo-che-maun, a wooden 

 canoe ; me-tig, being wood and che-maun, canoe ; oo-zah-wah-shoo-ne- 

 yah we-wuh-quaun, a golden crown ; wah-he-gun-e oo-nah-gun, an 

 earthen vessel, which is closely analogous to the Semitic expressions 

 vessels of silver, and still more so to the English silver vessels, gold 

 pens, &c. 



Mr. Schoolcraft's attempts at etymological analysis are not unfre- 

 quently bordering on the ludicrous ; we will instance one at page 397. 

 Speaking of such words as mis-quah-be-kud, it is red rock or metal ; 

 mis-quah-bik-e-ze, he is red metal ; he has the following observations ; 

 " The word ' is ' (included in brackets) in the translations, is not 

 deemed to be wholly gratuitous ; there is, strictly speaking, an idea 

 of existence given to these compounds by the particle ' au ' in au-bik, 

 which seems to be indirectly a derivative from that great and funda- 

 mental root of the language, i-au." In this passage Mr. Schoolcraft's 

 inconsistency with himself is easily made plain, even to a reader totally 

 unacquainted with the language. At page 389 he had correctly given 

 au-bik as the generic radix signifying any solid, stony, or metallic 

 mass ; then, at the beginning of page 397, he had again correctly 

 given misk-ivau-bik as signifying simply red rock ; but, if his analysis 

 on which we are now commenting were correct, misk-w au-bik would 

 signify it is red rock, as it contains the syllable au as well as misk- 

 waub-ik-kud, in which cas? the affix " ud" would be useless and un- 

 meaning ; but in truth it is this affix " ud" for the inanimate, iz-ze 

 for the animate, that is alone the verbalizing particle, and the con- 

 nexion between the au of the radix wau-bik and the verb substantive 

 i~au exists only in Mr. Schoolcraft's imagination. Before quitting the 

 subject of adjectives, we would beg to take exception to Mr. School- 

 craft's remarks on such words as pa-pa-zheh, as found in the compound 

 word pa-pa-zheg-oo-gun-zhe, a horse, on which he has the following 

 remarks, page 389 : " In naming the horse pa-pa-zhe-koo-gah-zhi, i. e., 

 the animal with solid hoofs, they have seized on the feature which 

 most strikingly distinguished the horse from the cleft-footed animals* 

 JPai-zhik is one, and is also used as the indefinite article. The word 

 pa-pa-zhik is also used in an adjective sense, figuratively, indicating 

 united, sohd, undivided," Now, the word pa-pa-zhig does not mean 



