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the lake-dwellings, and the making of the Necropolis, the former 
event must have come to pass 800 to 1000 years before the 
Christian era. The duration of the ages of stone, copper and 
bronze, is a matter of pure conjecture. All that can be regarded 
as certain, is that it was very long. In the opinion of Dr. Gross, 
and of other erudite Swiss antiquaries, several series of centuries 
—perhaps twenty or thirty—must have elapsed between the time 
when the first piles were driven into the beds of the Swiss lakes, 
and the time when lacustrine civilization reached its highest 
development. We shall probably not be far out, then, if we assign 
to the oldest of the lake-dwellings an antiquity of not less than 
six thousand years.—Contemporary Review, Fuly, 1884. 
WESTERN TRIBAL AND LocaL Names.—Recent investigations 
of a linguistic purport on the Western States and Territories have 
yielded many interesting results, which may be fully relied on, be- 
cause they were made and verified on the spot. Of ¢rzbal names 
we mention the following: 
Bidai, a tribe in Southern Texas, of unknown affinity, The 
Caddo term bidai means drushwood, thicket. 
Kichai, a tribe affiliated to the Wichita tribe ; from the Wichita | 
term kitsa, water. The Wichita Indians call a Kichai Indian, 
Kiétsash kuétsa, the Red river of Louisiana: Kitchka. 
The Caddo Indians once were in the habit of wearing nose- 
rings, and are still called by other tribes “ Pierced-Noses.” The 
Kayowé style them Mon-sépti, the Comanches Nasomonrhta ; 
“ring-nosed.” They call themselves Assinai, which is the name 
of a populous tribe once seen in the center of Texas, by C. de la 
Salle (about 168 
a headdress (siya feather), the other: “painted arrows” is de- 
rived from pak arrow, nábor “ striped.” The Kayowé name for 
that people, ’Ahiadl, is said to refer to their homes near cotton- 
wood trees. : ; 
The Apaches of Arizona are called by the Comanches Hitashi 
or with the full form: Hiitashi nap: moccasins turned up at the 
toes. Né ura’htd hitashi nap signifies: “ I wear moccasins turned 
up,” and a “ pug-nose”’ is called mui tar; ` 
Among the local names we point out the following : : 
Mobitée, a rising town in the Panhandle of Texas, is called so 
from the Comanche term: mobitai, yee Several creeks and | 
rivers in the vicinity are called by the same name. 
Abilene, a town nee railroad Station of Northwestern Texas: 
from avelino, the Mexican name of the peccary or musk-hog, fre- 
quent in some portions of Texas and old Mexico. — : 
Ozark, the name of this ridge is of French origin, and a muti- 
© 1 Ne, or ném is the Cémanche term for people. 
