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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  that 
  herb. 
  More 
  rarely 
  they 
  were 
  at 
  one 
  time 
  called 
  the 
  Nez 
  

   Perces, 
  or 
  Indians 
  with 
  Little 
  Holes 
  through 
  their 
  Noses; 
  a 
  

   name 
  better 
  applied 
  to 
  Indians 
  west 
  of 
  them. 
  

  

  South 
  of 
  Lake 
  Erie 
  were 
  the 
  Eries, 
  another 
  large 
  branch 
  of 
  the 
  

   family, 
  and 
  all 
  along 
  the 
  Susquehanna, 
  from 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  line 
  

   to 
  the 
  sea, 
  including 
  part 
  of 
  Delaware, 
  was 
  still 
  another 
  branch, 
  

   the 
  Minquas 
  of 
  the 
  Dutch, 
  the 
  Andastes 
  of 
  the 
  French. 
  All 
  these 
  

   spoke 
  dialects 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  tongue, 
  and 
  may 
  have 
  radiated 
  in 
  

   their 
  later 
  migrations 
  from 
  some 
  spot 
  near 
  the 
  east 
  end 
  of 
  Lake 
  

   Erie. 
  As 
  yet 
  separated 
  by 
  hostile 
  tribes 
  from 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  Iro- 
  

   quois 
  were 
  two 
  southern 
  branches, 
  the 
  Tuscaroras 
  and 
  Cherokees, 
  

   the 
  former 
  one 
  day 
  to 
  become 
  the 
  sixth 
  nation, 
  and 
  the 
  latter 
  to 
  

   be 
  a 
  stubborn 
  foe 
  of 
  the 
  confederacy. 
  

  

  In 
  Canada, 
  New 
  England 
  and 
  southern 
  New 
  York 
  were 
  the 
  

   Algonquin 
  tribes, 
  and 
  others 
  of 
  these 
  were 
  encountered 
  when 
  the 
  

   Hurons, 
  Eries 
  and 
  Neutrals 
  were 
  out 
  of 
  the 
  way. 
  

  

  From 
  the 
  Algonquins 
  all 
  were 
  distinguished 
  by 
  language 
  and 
  

   partially 
  by 
  habits 
  of 
  life. 
  The 
  Algonquins 
  used 
  labials 
  freely 
  ; 
  

   the 
  Huron-Iroquois 
  not 
  at 
  all, 
  and 
  their 
  language 
  has 
  been 
  much 
  

   discussed. 
  Father 
  Brebeuf 
  said, 
  in 
  1636: 
  "The 
  variety 
  of 
  com- 
  

   pounds 
  is 
  very 
  great 
  ; 
  it 
  is 
  the 
  key 
  to 
  the 
  secret 
  of 
  their 
  language. 
  

   They 
  have 
  as 
  many 
  genders 
  as 
  ourselves 
  ; 
  as 
  many 
  numbers 
  as 
  

   the 
  Greeks." 
  Prof. 
  Max 
  Miiller 
  wrote 
  : 
  " 
  To 
  my 
  mind 
  the 
  struc- 
  

   ture 
  of 
  such 
  a 
  language 
  as 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  is 
  quite 
  sufficient 
  evidence 
  

   that 
  those 
  who 
  worked 
  out 
  such 
  a 
  work 
  of 
  art 
  were 
  powerful 
  

   reasoners 
  and 
  accurate 
  classifiers." 
  

  

  Mr 
  Horatio 
  Hale, 
  the 
  eminent 
  Canadian 
  philologist, 
  said 
  : 
  

  

  A 
  complete 
  grammar 
  of 
  this 
  speech, 
  as 
  full 
  and 
  minute 
  as 
  the 
  

   best 
  Sanscrit 
  or 
  Greek 
  grammars, 
  would 
  probably 
  equal 
  and 
  per- 
  

   haps 
  surpass 
  those 
  grammars 
  in 
  extent. 
  The 
  unconscious 
  forces 
  

   of 
  memory 
  and 
  of 
  discrimination 
  required 
  to 
  maintain 
  this 
  com- 
  

   plicated 
  machine, 
  and 
  to 
  preserve 
  it 
  constantly 
  exact 
  and 
  in 
  

   good 
  working 
  order, 
  must 
  be 
  prodigious. 
  

  

  Mr 
  Hale 
  also 
  said 
  : 
  

  

  Philologists 
  are 
  well 
  aware 
  that 
  there 
  is 
  nothing 
  in 
  the 
  lan- 
  

   guage 
  of 
  the 
  American 
  Indians 
  to 
  favor 
  the 
  conjecture 
  (for 
  it 
  is 
  

   nothing 
  else) 
  which 
  derives 
  the 
  race 
  from 
  eastern 
  Asia. 
  But 
  in 
  

  

  