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PREFACE. 



country beyond the Rocky Mountain. The ba- 

 sis of the map, here given to the publick, is that 

 of Sir Alexander M c Kenzie, drawn by Arrowsmith. 

 That map has received many corrections, and to 

 it many important additions have been made, by 

 the authour of this work ; so that it is presumed 

 now to be the most correct map of the interiour of 

 North America, which has ever been published. 



Literary men have recently taken much inter- 

 est in comparing the different Indian languages, 

 spoken on this continent, with each other, and 

 with other languages, particularly with those an- 

 ciently spoken on the other continent. A very con- 

 siderable vocabulary of the one which is spoken, 

 with a little variation of dialect, through the long 

 tract of country, from a little back of Montreal to 

 the Rocky Mountain, and one less extensive of the 

 principal language spoken beyond it, are here giv- 

 en. Sir Alexander M c Kenzie has given a voca- 

 bulary of the first, which will be found, on compari- 

 son, to be somewhat different from that, which is 

 contained in this work. Two reasons may be as- 

 signed for this. In the country about the Atha- 

 basca Lake, where M c Kenzie principally resided, 



