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than tracing the origin of the Indians of Canada. Of the eleven 
families within the area of the Dominion—Algonkin, Wyandot- 
Iroquois, Dakota, Tinné, Thlinkit, Innuit, Haida, Chimsyan, 
Hailtzukh, Nutka and Selish—the four families of British Colum- 
bia and the Algonkin are held to be of insular origin, or Malayo- 
Polynesian. The Iroquois, Dakota and Tinné are, on the con- 
trary, derived from Tungusic and Koriak-Japanese stocks respec- 
tivel 
Professor Campbell, relying upon linguistic evidence mainly, 
and believing that no classification of peoples can proceed on the 
basis of such an accident as polysynthetism, erects a new crite- 
rium in the using or not using of prepositions, as ollows : 
Postpositional languages place the mark of relation after the 
noun, the temporal index after the verbal root, the active verb 
after its regimen, the nominative after its genitive, the noun after 
its adjective, 
Prepositional languages place the mark of relation before the 
noun, the temporal index before the verbal root, the active verb 
before its regimen, the nominative before its genitive, the noun 
before its adjective. 
Nine comparative vocabularies between Indian, Polynesian and 
Asiatic languages close the volume. 
0 be candid, it has never occurred to us that there is much in 
the method of inquiry pursued in this pamphlet ; but it is due to 
the author to say, that what good it possesses cannot fail to be ex- 
tracted by the immense amount of time and patience which Pro- 
fessor Campbell is expending upon it. 
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