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In Virginia, psucse, a bird, is from pacshi : yen, yeuch is woh in Hindi 

 he: howan who, and whom; wastah in Hindi, is zvutch in Virginia^, 

 propter, because, on account of„ 



In the Chikkasah, and CAo^^aManguages, locaov look is fire; and this 

 is an- o!d 'Gothic word used in the Edda. Tanasa, a bullock, ydna in 

 Sanscrit,' aid' to go, isjy^ in Sanscrit and ^o in Latin. Aimm-holc-hoU 

 In their language is in Hindi hum, or aham-huii-buld,r I spoke the s|>eee'h; 

 This last would certainly afford much merriment, in the eastern parts of 

 India, particularly, yet it would be understood. Unchdbd is a height, 

 mountain, both in these languages and in Sanscrit, 



The^ words are extra6ted, for the greatest part, from RelandV 

 short vocabularies of the /^wmca;« languages. They are short indeed; 

 for they contain only a few hundred words. In the diak<5ls of Peru and 

 Chili, and the northern coasts of America, California &c. I have not been 

 able to find a single word, that had iho. least affinity with the Sanscrit^ 

 or any other language of the old continent. In the languages of 

 J^orth- America^ there are fewer words from the old continent, thaninf 

 those of South- America, and of the Caribbees. Th^e reason is that ac- 

 cording to tradition, the tribes, which now inhabit North-America, came 

 originally from the western parts of that country, and settled there, 

 after having either exterminated or driven away the greatest pai;t of the 

 inhabitants; and the Caribbees assert, that they came originally frpm. 

 Florida. 



Beyond this belt, languages have little or no affinity with the Safis*^ 

 erit, except among such nations as are well known to have emigrated' 

 out of it. Thus the Chinese, who lived originally on the banks of the 



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