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quarie 



The Miriam Vocabulary belongs to a different class, viz. 

 the Papuan. It is a dialect of language first made known 

 to us through the Voyage of the ¥lj, as spoken in the 

 islands Erroob, Maer, and Massied. Admitting this, we 

 collate it with the North Australian tongues, and that, for 

 the sake of contrast rather than comparison. Here, the 

 philologist, from the extent to which the Australian tongues 

 differ from each other, notwithstanding their real affinity. 



