478 NORTH AMERICAN LINGUISTICS. 
Marcoux (Rev. Joseph) — continued. 
the French-Iroquois portion is sele, " soyons zfele pour la gloire de Dleu, Tewata- 
skennha ra-wenniieraarisa | Finis | Ad Majorem Dei gloriam. | J. M. | This dic- 
tionary, in the Mohawk dialect, is probably the most valuable contribution yet 
made to the Iroquois stock of dialects. 
2464 Grammaire Jroquoise | ou | La Langue Jroquoise | redu- 
ite I ea Priucipes Fixes | Par Moi | Sault Saint Louis | 1828. | 
Manuscript. Title-page, in the upper right hand corner of which is "Jos. 
Marcoux ptre " ; reverse blank, 1 1. ; 7 blank 11. ; pp. 1-157 ; reverse of 157 blank; 
5 blank 11. followed by Table des Matiferes, 3 pp. ; oblong folio. In the archives 
of the Roman Catholic Church at the Indian village of Caughnawaga, Canada. 
It is in the Mohawk dialect, although these peojile have been so isolated from 
the other tribes that they consider themselves only as the Iroquois. The mauu. 
script has been well preserved and is nicely bound. The first page begins with 
the preface or introduction entitled : Grammaire Iroquoise. The six tribes of 
Iroquois are briefly referred to, and the page closes with the statement that 
"Cette grammaire sera divis^e en trois parties, 416mens, syntaxe, et idiotismes." 
Premifere partie, fil^mens, p. 1. In this is given the number of letters used, and 
their different sounds. Rfegles de prononciation, p. 2. Five rules are given. On 
the middle of page 3 begins the chapter: Des Noras. Then follow three pages 
on the noun. At the end of p. 5 is the paragraph: Du Paradigme K- des Noms. 
Two pages are devoted to the conjugations of this paradigm. Then follow two 
pages of the conjugations in Paradigm A of the nouns. These tables are very 
elaborate. On p. 10 is the heading of a chapter: Des Genres et nombres. Page 
11 begins another: Noms de Nombre. These are divided into cardinal, ordi- 
nal, distributive, and multiplicative. Ist Division, Nombres Cardinaux— the 
numerals 1-1,000,000. Page 14 begins a paragraph entitled: Observations, fol- 
lowed by: Nombres Ordinaux, Nombres Distributifs, p. 15; Nombres Multipli- 
catifs, p. 16. The next division is: Des Adjectifs, observations, followed by the 
divisions: comparatif et superlatif, p. 17. The eighteenth page begins with: Des 
Pronoms. This contains a very complete table of the personal pronouns. The 
following page has a table of : Pronoms Possessifs. Page 21 is devoted to Pro- 
noms Ind^termiufe. Page 22 begins a new chapter : Du Verbe. " Le verbe est le 
mot par excellence de I'Iroquois, puisque dans cette langue tout est verbe, noms, 
pronoms, adjectifs." All of the pages to 108 are filled with the paradigms of the 
different conjugations, &c. 
Then follows, p. 109 : Seconde Partie, Syntaxe. This is divided into para- 
graphs headed: Syntaxe d'accord, p. 109 ; Tour N^gatif, p. 110; Tour Interroga- 
tif, p. 110; Tour Imp6ratif, p. HI. The next division is: Syntaxe des Pronoms, 
p. HI, followed by the paragraphs : Que avec les verbes, p. 112 ; De — Pour avec les 
verbes, p. 113; Noms d'instrument, de cause, de matifere, &c., p. 113; Regime d'un 
verbe sur un autre verbe, p. 114 ; Des pronoms en Y, p. 114 ; Adverbes de lieu, p. 
115; Des Quantit^s, p. 115; Des Comparaisons, p. 118. 
Ou p. 118 begins : Des Mesures, followed by Table des Mesures, Monoies, 
Poids, Longueur et Largeur, p. 119 ; Liquides, with table, p. 120 ; Tems, with table, 
p. 121 ; Relations de Parents, pp. 121-128. 
Thin begins, p. 129 : Troisifeme Partie, Idiotismes. Forty of these are given, 
each iu numbered paragraphs, extending to p. 139. Pp. 140-150 are blank. 
Page 151 begins a new section : Differences dans les Dialectes Iroquois entr'eux 
et avec la langue Huronne. On p. 153 begins an appendix: Remarques addi- 
tionelles et explications, which closes with p. 157. Reverse of p. 157 blank, fol- 
lowed by 6 blank 11. unpaged; then : Table des matieres, 3 pp. unnumbered. 
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